Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...describes her character as "inquistive" and "adventurous." Shelby is an intern at a police station, and "despite the warnings of her detective boss," conducts her own investigations, narrowly escaping danger, sometimes solving the case, other times...
...bankers' war, with its attack articles and smears in various financier-controlled media, has taken its toll. It has deepened the impression, widespread in the West, that Yeltsin's Russia is in danger of becoming what U.S. researchers recently called a "criminal-syndicalist state" controlled by an alliance of corrupt politicians, businessmen and crime bosses. It has shattered the credibility of the media, which for a few brief years following the collapse of the Soviet Union had a reputation for independence and integrity. And it has damaged the standing of the young reformers, Chubais and Nemtsov. Alexander Oslon, who polls...
...unsavory as their picture-taking binge may have been, the primary legal question is whether the photographers conspicuously failed to aid "persons in danger," as required by French law. One big strike against them is that with one exception, none of them attempted to call for help, though all were equipped with cell phones. Their almost unanimous response to this charge is that they heard or assumed "someone else" had already called...
President Kennedy: That's right. But he's initiated the danger, really, hasn't he? He's the one that's playing...
...hatchlings of some species exhibit survival strategies that might seem beyond their tiny reptilian brains. Young Eastern hog-nosed snakes, for example, feign death if they sense a threat. Are they consciously aware of danger? Or, as Greene puts it, "Does a mere serpent have reflections and intentions?" To learn more about snake behavior, Greene and his colleagues are going to plant tiny radio beepers inside newborn rattlesnakes. Says he: "Radio telemetry allows us to wonder more accurately what it's like to be a snake...