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...Number of strikeouts by Arizona Diamondback pitcher Randy (Big Unit) Johnson in seven innings...
...were smashing and apparently attempting to destroy a red Diamondback bicycle chained to a parking meter on Bow Street just before 1 a.m. Wednesday, police said...
...early 1980s, David made his own move into the wild. For a pittance he bought a 30-acre spread at Terlingua Ranch, a grandly named stretch of bare-bones, no-nonsense privacy among the mesquite and greasewood of the Chihuahuan desert, where lizards and diamondback rattlers are the nearest neighbors. To a few friends, he was even known jokingly as "Henry David"--as in Henry David Thoreau, the literary patron saint of nature lovers and solitary souls. He took a passionate stand against paving the two-lane road into Terlingua Ranch. "We both worried about the destruction of mankind from...
...game is Texas Hold 'Em (no limit), a diamondback species of seven-card stud in which each player gets two cards down, and then five cards usable by all players are dealt face up; the first three at the same time, then the fourth, then the last. You can't bring in fresh money, so that when you run dry, you're gone, frozen out. The last two gunslingers left on the tournament's fourth day are firing from behind stacks worth a total of $1.94 million...
After being weighed, the snakes are dumped in a great braided mass into chest-high octagonal white plywood stockades, called pits. There they can be safely ogled and photographed in all their slithering, tongue-flicking, fang- baring, rattling, coiling, head-rearing glory. The Western diamondback, Crotalus (castanet) atrox (fearful), is indeed a horrible-wonderful creature. Its head is broad and flat, and its close-set, silver gray eyes with black pupils seem fixed and furious. A dry, cool skin of interlocking gray-and-brown diamond pattern leads to a pyramid of hard keratin nubs, acquired at the tail after successive...