Word: carcasses
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...genome and found the two viruses to be nearly identical. The World Health Organization points out that the results don't definitively prove that civets or other animals gave humans SARS. But theoretically, a civet bite or sneeze could infect its owner?so could the handling of a butchered carcass. (The virus is unlikely to survive cooking, so it probably wasn't contracted by a diner in a restaurant...
...declaration of George Bush's Iraq 'n roll war? The task fell to someone eager to shoulder it: Michael Moore, producer-director of "Bowling for Columbine," a docu-tragicomedy that just about predicted a bogus U.S. war post-9/11. One of the few leftists to park his ample carcass atop the non-fiction best seller list for months on end, Moore was spoiling for this fight. On Thursday, he had posted an open letter to "Governor" Bush that decried his "lying and conniving." Saturday, at the Independent Spirit Awards, he had given a dry run of his Oscar speech...
...they loathed their owners. Today another automobile is inspiring such passions. As sport-utility-vehicle owner Amy Dickie says, "The SUV is the Cadillac of the new millennium." Dickie is 30, brokers insurance in Atlanta and owns a Lexus RX 300. Ads hint the thing could haul a yak carcass across Tibetan grasslands; though it's one of the smaller SUVs, it can tow up to 3,500 lbs. But Dickie uses it to drive, by herself, three miles each way to and from the office. She also occasionally lugs scuba gear in it, but mostly she likes its style...
Around the same time as the principal incident, Watkins went on a hunting expedition with her father. While he went off to spot ducks, she hung back with her .243-cal. rifle in search of bigger game. Her father returned to find Watkins standing over the carcass of a deer. She set about gutting it so the family could make spicy ground-venison chili. "It stinks, it's gutty, it's nasty," she says. "My father could not take it." He stepped to the side and vomited...
...Enron's profiteering from California's power crunch (along with that of other energy traders) saddled Golden State residents with an $11.3 billion bill. Legal experts say it may take five years to prosecute the wrongdoers. The debacle's winners? All those lawyers probing and pecking at Enron's carcass...