Word: hunts
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...ongoing publicity stunt.” “[This] isn’t helping medicine or science, and it’s just getting him attention,” Stossel said. He added that he believed Grassley and his allies are on a “witch hunt,” and that he thought doctors with pharmaceutical ties were being subjected to embarrassment they do not deserve. Stossel was also critical of student complaints about the Pfizer photographer at the protest. “What do they think, that Pfizer is going to come and hire people...
...brought the whole tribe together, when depicting played a central role in religious rites, when dance was the act that taught man how to work and live in synchrony. OK, yes, I’ll admit, it was pretty long ago when dancing around the campfire equipped us to hunt down our dinner in concert, but not so long ago that it should seem perfectly natural for us that art plays so small a social role, that it has become a superficial structure, layered on top of “real” material existence. In fact, I could argue...
...Amid the controversy, Kevorkian (who was released from prison in 2007 for good behavior after serving eight years of a 10-to-25-year sentence) has weighed in. Never publicity shy, Kevorkian says that while he believes the group was the victim of a witch hunt, he feels its members shouldn't be performing assisted suicides without a doctor present. (See more about Kevorkian...
...moonless night. Amador and Iglesias, whom I had been talking to moments earlier in the dark, were suddenly snoring in their hammocks. I sat in the back of pickup truck trying not to smell like vampire bait and hoping I wasn't in charge of the hunt...
...around the state. (The U.S. Geological Survey has concluded that vast swaths of the Piedmont, between the low-lying Tidewater to the east and the Blue Ridge to the west, potentially hold uranium.) In two years Marline had found the monster deposits in Pittsylvania. The discovery touched off a hunt for uranium statewide, alarming communities along the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge that didn't want to see horse pastures turned into mining pits. In 1982, the state acted to ease nerves by declaring the moratorium. Then the price of uranium tanked, dropping to $9 a pound...