Word: escapees
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Even the most dedicated video gamers, Web surfers and couch potatoes long for an occasional escape from electronic amusement. For old-fashioned fun, many Americans are going back to family board games--sales were up 18% in 2005--and discovering that there's a fresh new crop every year. Here...
To cry is to disengage, to stop the conversation. Some scientists speculate that crying may have developed as a kind of psychic escape hatch - the sheer physicality of it distracting the distraught when mental anguish becomes too much to endure.
But Kakata is without almost everything else. At night, lights burn in just three houses, powered by privately owned generators. There is no water. The streets were once lively with Mandingo shops; now much of Kakata is burned and looted. Any Mandingo who did not manage to escape was "killed...
QUIVER TREE This striking giant aloe was given its name by the San people of southern Africa, who use the tree's hollow branches as quivers for their arrows. Scientists have discovered that quiver trees are starting to die off in parts of their traditional range. The species might be...
It's a fair bet that global warming is going to lead to a rise in human sickness and death. But what form they will take is difficult to say. We can be pretty sure that as average temperatures climb, there will be more frequent and longer heat waves of...