Word: elk
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John and Susan Purcell toured Yellowstone this winter the new, noisy way--by snowmobile. And like thousands of visitors who clamber onto winter scooters every week to explore America's oldest national park, they can't get over those close encounters with wild elk, moose, trumpeter swans, coyotes and, closest of all, buffalo. The huge, hairy beasts--some weighing as much as a Volkswagen--ambled right down the middle of the road, often forcing drivers to hit their brakes to avoid a meaty collision. "We got within 5 ft. of them!" says an excited John Purcell. "I've never seen...
...committed to diversity, it would find room at the Crimson Inn for black conservative professors in order to provide a counterpoint to the Marxist nonsense preached by Cornel West and his acolytes. Instead, Harvard, along with Newt Gingrich, has bought into the fallacy that Jesse Jackson and his elk represent black America...
...human disease in some people who consumed the beef. Following Britain's lead, the American livestock industry last year voluntarily banned all sheep products in livestock feed. But the FDA's new measure will extend this ban further: no cows could be fed anything made with cow, goat, deer, elk or mink parts. Cow blood, gelatin and milk, however, will remain acceptable food ingredients for cattle, as they are not believed to harbor the illness. How about a nice salad...
...Even the elk-horned chandelier, which college lore attributes to Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, will hang in the complex in newly- restored splendor...
...Rosa, a maintenance technician in Elk Grove Village, is an active member of numerous community organizations, including the local A.C.L.U. and PTA. But as a heavy underdog in the race, with no political experience, he will have to stretch his "common-man" credentials...