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...this very serious-looking javelin the twenty-something Kristin had speared a toy lion cub. "It's to show how I could survive" she explained. But it's only a miniature plush animal, I pointed out. "But it proves I could kill if I was hungry." I asked her what gave her the killer instinct. "I teach 30 fifth-grade kids...
...Cub fan punches Dodger catcher Chad Kreuter, steals his cap, igniting player vs. fan brawl...
...love affair with presidential campaigns began back in 1980, when I covered Ted Kennedy and then Ronald Reagan as a lucky cub reporter for this magazine. Ever since, like a duck hunter or baseball fan drawn to opening day, I have managed to make it to New Hampshire for the start of the season...
...British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest, I catch sight of two grizzlies, the first I have ever seen in the wild. Four-year-olds, they hang out and fool around, rather like human teenagers. Then five more bears stroll out of the forest--a female with a golden cub and another mother with two cubs. The mothers nurse the 18-month-old cubs and scoop up some of the hundreds of thousands of salmon on their way up the inlet to spawn and die. Then another bear appears, followed by tiny triplets. This excites my guide, Owen Nevin, a Utah...
When it comes to reproduction, though, nothing is quite so easy. Nature abhors deficits and surpluses, and successful parenting often involves spacing births far enough apart so no offspring go hungry but not so far apart that resources go unused. Many mammals nurse a pup or cub or child far longer than necessary because lactation shuts down ovulation and a new pregnancy can be put off until circumstances are right for it. Only when they are will the mother conceive again. "All mother mammals are forced to make the most of the resources available while making trade-offs compatible with...