Word: caging
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...most powerful taste-makers in Hollywood, the guy behind the record-breaking success of 300, the hit status of NBC's Heroes and the reign of the Xbox 360 gaming console. He enjoys invitations to the Skywalker Ranch and hangs out with guys like Nicolas Cage and Quentin Tarantino at conventions. He's zealously loyal, notoriously finicky and often aggressive with those who dare to disagree with...
...left alone. But a couple of scientists at the Wolong Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda keep poking her with long bamboo poles. Hua Mei, who is in heat and (biologically, at least) ready to mate, gets another prod, pushing her in the direction of the neighboring cage where her putative partner, Wu Gong, is watching with placid indifference. Hua Mei reluctantly decides to cooperate and, raising her tail, pads delicately backward toward Wu Gong. The male panda takes one look at her proffered hindquarters and scoots over to the far corner of his cage. Turning his back...
...Snapping is a misnomer," says Dr. Michael Welner, associate professor of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine. "These people plan to carry out a mass killing without any indication of when they will do it. Instead of snapping, imagine a cage that someone has the capacity to unhinge. They simply decide that today...
...Crimson eventually got on the board when freshmen Kathryn Bilder placed an outside shot into the bottom corner of the cage with just under three minutes to play in the first quarter. Harvard then went on to hold Brown scoreless for the next 12 minutes, a span that included the entire second quarter...
...Turn on, tune in, drop out” should be the adopted slogan of the Quincy Cage—but hold the drugs and emphasize the “drop out.” A venue for student bands in the basement of New Quincy, the Cage has closed for the remainder of the year, part of renovations to increase Quincy’s accessibility, which include raising the floor of the Junior Common Room and installing an elevator. On March 21, Cage liaisons were informed that the space which had played host to nearly a dozen shows last year...