Word: carcasses
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Surely our hunter-gatherer ancestors played games: "Race you to that carcass," perhaps, or "I'm a better spear thrower than you." The winner ate; the loser was tiger bait. Our Darwinian need for competition, short of war, ultimately diverted to sport. The Greeks stopped battles for their Olympics; the Romans hailed their gladiators; they also played a version of soccer. Ancient sportswriters recorded...
...deep-fried carcass of General Tso b) evidence that dinosaurs developed feathers before birds did c) you cannot, in fact...
...officially headed into oblivion after U.S. bankruptcy judge Peter Walsh announced Monday that he'd accept American Airlines' $742 million bid for the carcass of the once-venerable airline. The ruling came just in time for American to dash off a $130 million check - part of an overall assumption of $3.5 billion in TWA debt -to keep the repo men away from TWA's planes. And so Trans World Airlines and its bustling St. Louis hub will survive. The TWA name will...
...test-launch its intercontinental ballistic missiles and it has warned that it will equip its hard-to-detect Topol-M missile with multiple warheads if Washington goes ahead with the NMD system. Although it can scarcely afford to pay its soldiers and although its armed forces are barely a carcass of the old Soviet military machine, Russia can still act like a superpower when it wants to, and it expects to be treated...
...mysterious new company of aviation experts and investors that calls itself Jet Acquisitions Group entered the TWA sweepstakes Wednesday, making a $6 billion offer for the carcass of the going-bankrupt airline that nearly doubles the offer made last month by American Airlines...