Word: cranes
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Searles, an intense, ponytailed Ichabod Crane figure, was asked to study the bears and suggest how everybody could get along. The contractor watched them dine at heavily trafficked Dumpsters for nearly a year. He discovered a culture of dominance in which some ate first and others waited. He watched bears urinate and defecate to mark territories. He consulted biologists, who explained that black bears instinctively climb trees rather than attack...
RUNNER-UP The Crane Wife. Retold by Odds Bodkin. Illustrated by Gennady Spirin...
...Dartboard are dismayed by the dangerous construction projects under way in the Square. Next door to Grendel's Den, an enormous crane is being used to relocate a historic building in the way of a new commercial development. The crane looms high above the horizon, threatening to topple at any moment, sending hundreds of pedestrians fleeing for their lives (and seriously disrupting the flow of traffic...
...aggregate weight of the seven Torqued Ellipses comes to nearly 400 tons, giving this a claim to be the most ponderous one-man show in history) had to be shipped to Los Angeles via the Panama Canal and set up inside the Geffen Contemporary. The plates couldn't be craned in through its doors, and so, recalls the museum's director, Richard Koshalek, "we took the direct way. We just cut a big hole in the back wall and had the trucks drive straight in." Then, with the help of a compact but powerful lifting crane whose last major...
...Many factors go into a good business school," Crane said. "[Prospective] students still need to do their homework...