Word: grasses
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...hairy-nosed wombat. Only 115 of the burrowing, nocturnal marsupials survive in this 7,800-acre (3,160 hectare) preserve at Epping Forest National Park, and I've ventured out in the hope of spotting one. As my footsteps send wallabies bounding through the scrub, something shuffles through the grass a few yards ahead. I aim my flashlight, and I'm startled to find myself confronting a small, bearlike wombat. I've just become one of only a few hundred people who have ever been face to face with the northern hairy-nose, because none are in captivity...
...athletically-inclined, we have a slate of early spring season home games across the river this weekend. Whatever your preference -- ice, hard court, or grass -- Crimson teams will be putting on a display, as men’s and women’s hockey and lacrosse, as well as women’s basketball and men’s volleyball, will all be playing in Cambridge. Find out more after the jump...
...crosses symbolizing the war dead, the makeshift tents, the signs, the satellite trucks, the flag-draped Harley-Davidsons, the Joan Baezes and the right-wing talk-radio hosts are all gone. Sheehan quit her protest, disillusioned with both Republican and Democratic leaders, in 2007. The once flattened roadside grass, parched yellow by drought, now stands straight. The only movement is a hawk landing on a fence post, a horse pawing at the dust and a trio of baby goats playing in a dry creek...
...He’s a left-handed stick who can hit the ball where the grass doesn’t grow,” Walsh says...
...You’re the most elite students in the country. Five, the girls here are smoke shows. The cat’s pajamas. Six, you will learn to love having seasons. It’s only cold a few months a year. Seven, yeah, we always have grass in the Yard. Who wants to play some Ultimate?! Eight, your parents’ love is unconditional...