Word: huntly
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...Take mating, for instance. When females are scarce, males, not surprisingly, have to fight for the right to mate. Females, on the other hand, are on the hunt for not just any mate but one that can provide food for both her and the clutch of eggs she will lay. (Females, in the ultimate bow to efficiency, tend to lay their eggs on a food source, thus ensuring their offspring have a ready supply of nutrition.) So for males, securing a territory with a food patch is critical to attracting the attentions of a female. (See the top 10 medical...
...course, severance is about more than just cash. In many cases, the most valuable things a company can give you don't cost it much, if any, money. Being able to use your company e-mail, or even your office, while you job-hunt keeps an aura of employment that will make you that much more attractive to the next company. Having a glowing letter of reference in hand helps in interviews. "Those are things that are really important to help you get another job," says Rusty Rueff, who used to run HR for video-game maker Electronic Arts...
...bike gangs. It is also pondering the introduction of new laws to declare illegal membership in or association with particular clubs. "These groups are behaving like wild animals - uncivilized and with no regard for our community. If they behave like this, then we have no choice but to hunt them down and deal with them," an angry New South Wales police commissioner, Andrew Scipione, told reporters. Scipione has defended the police record in dealing with gangs. He says that in the past six months, 185 gang members and associates have been charged with 572 offenses, most of them related...
...Police had found her DNA on items ranging from a cookie to a heroin syringe to a stolen car. They had put a $400,000 reward on her head. Profilers from around Europe were called in to help hunt her down. The police even consulted diviners and fortune-tellers in hopes of discovering her identity. The papers declared the case "the most mysterious serial crime of the past century." (See pictures of fighting crime...
There's not much hunt in it, though. If the agents sight a smuggler's boat, it's game over - the feds' boats are faster, their drivers better trained and their guns bigger, Hill explains. Typically the smugglers just surrender, as their cell phones and BlackBerrys fly overboard. "The first thing we'll see are little black things going 'splash, splash, splash,'" he says. Should boats escape notice on the water, overnight lookouts now stand watch at Torrey Pines Beach. "It's cat and mouse," Hill says. "We watch them. They watch...