Word: cull
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...German cities. Each houses hundreds of birds: their mess is contained and their eggs removed or sterilized. Belgium adores its racing pigeons, but escapees swell the ranks of street pests, so many cities issue fines ranging from $30 to $3,000 for feeding them and hire contractors to cull birds. In Hindu mythology, the pigeon is the chosen bird of the love-god Kamadeva. Bombay's residents can feed them to their hearts' desire. In Hong Kong, the $193 feeding fine is rarely imposed, perhaps because locals like their pigeons plump - and roasted...
...Galan, one of five hawks intended to cull pigeons in New York City's Bryant Park, exceeded the job description when it swooped down on a stroller's pet Chihuahua. The program has been suspended
...what I will really need is money and lots of it. To that end, I’m getting a leg up on my future competition by forming a political action committee (PAC)—read: “slush fund”—to cull the assets from various quasi-legal business ventures (selling fake underage IDs to middle-aged women, selling Tony Robbins motivational tapes to under-motivated people and operating the most lucrative midget-only casino this side of the Rio Grande, to name a few). This PAC, combined with sizable donations from rich...
...Speed and accurate information are critical in defeating such outbreaks, and critics say Beijing's silence has had deadly consequences. In 1997, when a previously unknown strain of avian influenza killed nine in Hong Kong, the government's swift move to quarantine patients and cull more than a million chickens was widely credited with halting the spread of the disease. The risks of an uncontrolled viral outbreak are catastrophically high: with its tens of millions of pigs, poultry and people living in close proximity, southern China has long been one of the world's most lethal breeding grounds for killer...
...eliminate the traditional editorial function. What they have done is find electronic methods of repackaging the work of human reporters and editors. Google is trying to keep the inner workings of its robo-editor secret, but I did find out it uses more than 150 different criteria to cull its story list from those 4,000 news sources. Example: a boldface headline centered at the top of a Web page is considered more relevant than a smaller one farther down the page...