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...once again Harvard managed to claw its way back into the game, with the two goals from Dickson and Kimmel...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Comes Up Short in Solid Performance | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...Coming out of a huge win against Brown,” said senior running back Cheng Ho, “we have to be aware that there’s no such thing as a letdown. They’re very hungry for a win. They’ll claw, they’ll scratch, [they will] do whatever it takes. We’re expecting great intensity from them...

Author: By Erika T. Butler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Hopes To Avoid Letdown at Lehigh | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

...Wall Street is exactly an example of what Smith was warning [about]. Society is not really made to be a purely competitive operation. And I think we have learned that lesson, but I don't know for how long. The whole argument that nature is red in tooth and claw, and for that reason society ought to be like that, is flawed. Because nature is not like that. If you look at our close relatives, you see animals who survive by cooperating. Yes, there is competition. There is dominance, hierarchy. They sometimes fight. They sometimes even kill each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Humans Actually Selfish? | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...foxes are a guide, dog evolution may have begun with a similar shift in personality. Ancestors of dogs could cooperate to hunt, but the cooperation had limits. Wolves are fiercely competitive, as each one tries to claw its way to the top of the pack. Hare proposes that aggressive wolves evolved to have an easygoing personality thanks to a new opportunity: trash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secrets Inside Your Dog's Mind | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...where Raptorex was originally found, for example, they know it had some stiff competition. "They would have co-existed with velociraptor-like dinosaurs," says Sereno - the human-scale carnivores that starred in Jurassic Park. But they would have hunted very differently: velociraptors, Sereno explains, "had long, grasping arms with clawed hands." They also had a large, sickle-shaped claw on their middle toes, probably used for slashing prey. It was most likely only after the prey was dead that their mouths got into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiny T. Rex: Fossil Shows the Dino King Started Small | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

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