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...when the chupacabras was supposedly terrorizing a rural farming community outside the colonial city of Leon, a former government vampire hunter told the local press that the real blood-sucking culprit was a giant vampire bat with a 5-ft wingspan, which he claims to have once caught in the northern mountains of Nicaragua. Bat experts and other vampire hunters insist there's no way a vampire could grow that big, but zoologist Bill Schutt says the hunter could have caught the Vampyrum spectrum, a monstrous carnivorous bat found in Nicaragua. The Vampyrum spectrum is an extremely rare predator with...
Still, there was once a true giant vampire bat and some experts think that creature of the late Pleistocene, the Desmodus draculae, may still be alive today in some remote corner of the world. Nicaragua perhaps? Unlikely, Schutt says, but not impossible. "I'd jump up and down if one were discovered today," Schutt said. The farmers of Nicaragua, however, may not be as happy...
...into elite firms; the process allows students’ careers to blossom and the economy to grow. I do question, however, its scale at institutions like Harvard. Last year, more than two-fifths of last year’s graduating class funneled themselves into one small sector of the giant American economy...
...twelve-year-old’s Jar Jar Binks-themed birthday party. Me-sa wants a big underwater rollie coastie. Imagine all-a the food-a being cotton candy and gummies shaped liked me-sa, Jar Jar Binks! Exskweeze me! Me-sa needing never-ending snow cone and a giant gumdroppa palace, but in this economic climate, I hardly believe it would be worth the long-term effect to our investment capital to build an underwater rollie coastie. O-kee day? [2] 5. Ahem, the problem with Harvard’s student body is that we have too many...
...getting ready to take on one of the biggest legal controversies in Russia's history. Many of the cases from Russia that come before the ECHR are small or are duplicate complaints submitted by different plaintiffs. But in January, the ECHR announced a doozy: it said oil giant Yukos, which was effectively shut down by Moscow in 2006, three years after its boss, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was thrown into prison on charges of fraud and tax evasion, could proceed with a lawsuit seeking $34 billion in damages against the Russian government. It is the largest claim the ECHR has agreed...