Word: cullings
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...when I set out as an undercover journalist seeking a white-collar corporate job for my book Bait and Switch, I was shocked to find the emphasis entirely on such elusive qualities as "personality," "attitude" and "likability." Play down the smarts, the career coaches and self-help books advised, cull the experience and exude a "positive attitude...
That isn't likely to happen anytime soon. Like its whaling ally Iceland, Japan gets its meat by exploiting a loophole in the IWC's moratorium that permits members to cull whales for scientific study--a practice cetologists now consider mostly unnecessary because of advances in tracking and dna technology. The hunting itself is done by Japan's only whaling fleet, owned by Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha of Tokyo, a ship-chartering firm. Sales of the meat are used solely to fund Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR), which conducts the studies. "The IWC convention stipulates that any by-product...
...Another certainty is that for a nation with a poor record of public healthcare, containing the virus will be a steep challenge. India's Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has quarantined the area in the district of Nandurbar and dispatched medical teams to cull up to half a million chickens from around 16 farms. Other flocks on nearby farms are being vaccinated. Ramadoss has also sent a million doses of H5N1 bird vaccine to Nandurbar. But despite his assurances that "people need no panic, the situation is under control," Indian newspapers on Monday published pictures showing some farmers participating...
...state and territory governments that spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year trying to keep crocodiles and human beings apart. With more than 100,000 crocodiles living around the coast from Bundaberg, Queensland, to Derby, Western Australia, it's a daunting task. Each attack draws calls for a cull of the reptiles, which have been protected by law since the early '70s, and fresh concerns about the effectiveness of management programs. The Queensland government says its crocodile-control strategy - monitoring populations, removing crocodiles identified as a threat and educating people about the dangers - is working. But according to officials...
...could still cull a comely quintet of nominees from the current gang of 15--including Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Mad Hot Ballroom, Murderball, Rize and, of course, March of the Penguins. Perhaps Herzog can take solace in the fact that, as those penguins proved, persistence is everything...