Word: caged
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...news meant that the man George Bush vowed to hunt down was now at his mercy, and so he has choices to make. He could declare victory and go home, but nothing in his reflexes or rhetoric suggests that, having placed Saddam in a cage, he is inclined to leave his other promises unfulfilled. And so the latest in the series of tests of a President?s instincts and motives comes to this: Does he trust the people he says he went to war to free to do the right thing? If a sense of justice is the necessary rock...
...early this afternoon, from an anonymous author, claiming that several members of a final club were instructed to hold hostage, then kill and devour, an innocent, fun-loving chicken. Sure, the poor animal was probably purchased from a farm where it was being kept in a freezing cold, 1x1 cage, and was going to be killed and devoured in the near future anyway, but this is still unacceptable...
...video monitor, two small marmosets - tree-dwelling South American monkeys with white ear tufts - cling tightly to each other, looking terrified. A third writhes in pain, postsurgery, on the floor of its cage; others have raw and bloody head wounds that seem crudely stitched up. The animals appear in a 21-minute exposé called Cutting Edge, shot for the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) in one of Cambridge University's neuroscience research labs. The monkeys' brains had been deliberately damaged in experiments meant to simulate the symptoms of stroke and Parkinson's disease. Important research that...
...before they roll. The Army is concerned that the eight-wheel battle wagons are vulnerable to the insurgents' favorite weapon--the primitive but ubiquitous rocket-propelled grenade (RPG). So more than 100 soldiers and contractors have been working virtually around the clock, bolting a 5,200-lb. metal cage resembling a big green catcher's mask around each vehicle. The cage's metal slats are designed to detonate an incoming RPG some 18 in. away from the Stryker, minimizing the round's ability to bore through its skin and injure those inside. So why didn't the Army anticipate such...
...quibbling over the size of the cage or the number of “enrichments” provided to captive primates, animal experimenters at Harvard Medical School (HMS) distract attention away from their inability to justify actions that, if conducted outside of the laboratory, would constitute animal cruelty (News, “Harvard Said to Mistreat Its Monkeys,” Nov. 6). As Alice Walker said, “The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites, or women created...