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...dismay the bear in her yard will live, for now. When biologist Eriksen arrives, he finds the animal barely whimpering. Madonia shoots her with a tranquilizer and pours water over her belly to cool her down. They tag her, fit a radio transmitter around her neck and extract a baby tooth to study. Then they release her in a wildlife-management area, shooting her with rubber buckshot as she scampers off. That's what Eriksen calls "attitude conditioning," intended to instill a fear of humans. But that fear is often overcome when hunger meets the smell of stale baked goods...
...does one extract venom from a tiny, delicate and perhaps deadly spider? In a word: carefully. Kristensen and his wife Anita start by tranquilizing the specimen with a gentle breeze of carbon-dioxide gas from a cylinder behind the milking desk. Once the spider is groggy, the milker, peering through a low-power stereoscopic microscope, gently picks it up with metal tweezers that are connected to an electrical supply. When a mild shock is administered through the tweezers, the spider promptly spews up pretty much everything liquid inside it--including digestive enzymes. That was a problem early on, until Chuck...
Furlow did successfully place two babies with adoptive parents. But in the vast majority of cases, according to the indictment, she spent most of her time telling stories. Even when she was not trying to extract more money from clients, she created new, gratuitous dramas, her victims say. "She enjoyed controlling other people's lives," Kiser-Mostrom says now. "I think it gave her some kind of thrill...
...mercy of the sellers." Those sellers, on the other hand, are at the mercy of--wow!--no one, and with capacity shortages driving up unregulated wholesale prices as much as 50 to 100 times the normal rate, they're doing quite well. "Owners of power plants can extract monopoly rents," notes Edward Smeloff, executive director of the Pace University Law School Energy Project...
...Louis to be the commercial capital of the Midwest, with money pouring in off the barges and trains that converged at this point, where the Ohio and the Mississippi conjoin. But the levees it erected to keep the floods out also hemmed Cairo in. Now the town wants to extract itself from its history by using it. The 1872 Customs House has been turned into a museum, glorifying its days of big grain and big gambling. The old Gem Theater is being restored. And the Riverlore mansion, once owned by a riverboat captain, is being converted into...