Word: cull
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...first official effort at documenting their formidable live show.Originally slated as half of a joint CD/DVD release—the DVD was cancelled because singer/song-writer Jeff Tweedy deemed the footage too “claustrophobic”—the double disc album contains 23 songs, mostly culled from the band’s recent studio effort “A Ghost is Born,” but their 2001 classic “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” is also well-represented. The band appointed well-respected sound engineer Jim Scott (Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Red Hot Chili...
...more patient scientist might have waited and harvested more data. But patience is not Guan's strong suit, and with new human cases surfacing, there wasn't time. Putting his scientific reputation on the line, he gave his preliminary results to authorities in Guangdong and urged them to cull civets being sold in wild-animal markets. After some hesitation, they did--and since then, the only new SARS cases have come from a handful of lab accidents. "My personal effort stopped the second SARS outbreak," Guan says. "And hopefully my personal effort will contribute to saving the world from this...
...cull out those in the third category, colleges like Dartmouth and Stanford require applicants checking the Native American ethnicity box to submit either a copy of their tribal affiliation cards or a letter explaining non-tribal Native American ties. Harvard should co-opt this procedure as well. If the ultimate goal of the College’s admissions process is to create as diverse a student body as possible, the College shouldn’t risk accepting applicants who are neither affiliated with a tribe, nor familiar with Native American identity. Presumably, there are other, similarly qualified Native American applicants...
...when the birds became sick recently, they were forced to kill them. "There's no Tet for us this year," says wife Truong Thi Dua, watching as the live ducks are tossed onto a large bonfire. The family is being compensated with a total of $32 for their culled birds, less than they borrowed to buy them as ducklings last year. "Now we have nothing, not even enough money to buy ingredients for one banh chung [bean paste and pork] cake," says Truong. Village chief Huynh Van Tiep, who is overseeing the cull, says the Nguyens aren't alone...
...that most other writing about this art is as bad or worse. I found the small catalog booklet published to accompany the exhibition almost unreadable; the talk of the “sad poetry” and “certain poignancy” which Evans is able to cull from “atavistic technology” and the identification of the broad themes in his work as “information, poetry, art, science, and communication,” would have been silly had I not found them so frustrating. It’s all too clear that...