Word: carrion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston men yesterday were sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 1990 murders of Jesse McKie and Rigoberto Carrion, residents of Cambridge's Area Four...
...court ruled that Ventrey A. Gordon, 19, and Sean Lee, 29, murdered MicKie for his leather jacket and Carrion, an eyewitness, on January 25, 1990, in the neighborhood near Central Square...
...majestic wings once cast large shadows all over North America. The bird was a survivor. When saber-toothed cats and other big animals died off about 10,000 years ago, the California condor retreated to the carrion-rich Pacific coast and survived. A Spanish priest recorded seeing one in 1602; Lewis and Clark spotted another...
...California the lives of the freed condors will be "managed." Stillborn calves left on mountains might keep the birds from flying to flatland sources of toxic food, and moving the carrion around will force natural foraging behavior. Biologists assume that intensive care is temporary. "Right now, we are this species' surrogate parents," says Robert Measta, head of U.S. Fish and Wildlife condor operations. "In the old days, adult condors did this job." With luck, someday they will again...
Tere Riera-Carrion '92, a former president of La Organizacion, is a resident of San Juan, Puerto Rico...