Word: feral
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There are indeed dangerous wild dogs in Kabul. This is one reason why the dogs serving at the Mine Dog Center are killed by injection when they complete their service at seven or eight years old, rather than freed into a realm of feral creatures and dog-hating locals. Another reason is that the dogs, even if they found homes, could lead likely Afghan owners into danger, even in retirement, because the German Shepherds would continue to search out ordnance. Explains Mohammed Nabi, 48, rangy and black bearded, "the trainers make the dogs acquainted with explosives from the very beginning...
...Farrahmania. She was the decade's premier poster girl, with 8 million sold in a year. The number of baby girls named Farrah quickly spiked. A myriad of hairdos went Fawcett-feral. She signed a lucrative deal to front a line of Faberge perfume and accessories. She also furnished the press with aphorisms that might have been recycled from the Marilyn Monroe quote book ("The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think"). Some women might shrink from this fame tsunami; Fawcett expertly surfed...
...first thing to say about Roth's Indignation is that it's a terrible book. The Roth who wrote Portnoy's Complaint in 1969 was a ranting, sulfurously brilliant stylist whose paragraphs were so full of energy and intelligence gone feral with self-loathing that they practically tore themselves apart on the page. This was a writer who showed us his adolescent hero sinning carnally with a hunk of raw liver that his unsuspecting family ate for dinner later that...
...Applebee's. It's sneering and unwatchably badly written; it shoots at fish in a barrel and still manages to miss. On NBC's My Name Is Earl, by comparison, Jaime Pressley's Joy may be a moron, but she's an interesting one, with a kind of admirably feral greed. Blair's Kim is just a cartoon idiot. ("It's over!" she declares about her marriage. "O-V-U-R!") If you can't even make your characters believably dumb, you've got problems, and while Shannon does her best with what she's given, the mother-daughter dialogue...
...Australia's most unusual animals could vanish from the wild within three years. Spread by biting during mating and one of only three communicable cancers ever seen, devil facial tumor disease has baffled scientists. And as it rages through 60% of the devils' habitat, introduced pests like feral cats and foxes have been taking the place of Tasmania's largest native predator...