Word: lawton
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While fond of his cat, British biologist Peter Churcher looked askance at its practice of dragging small mammals and birds into his Bedfordshire house and devouring them under the kitchen table "to the sound of crunching bones." One of Churcher's associates, John Lawton, a professor of community ecology at the University of London, was similarly impressed by his own cat's predatory pursuits. With the natural curiosity of true scientists, they decided to look further into the depredations of felines. If all the domestic cats in Britain caught as much prey as theirs did, the two men reasoned, they...
Hyperbole? Not at all. Writing in the July issue of Natural History, Churcher and Lawton estimate that Britain's 5 million house cats wreak an annual toll of some 70 million animals and birds...
...tightest Senate races is in Florida,where a late-hour poll showed a virtual dead heatbetween Democratic Rep. Buddy MacKay andRepublican Rep. Connie Mack for the seat beingvacated by Democratic Sen. Lawton Chiles...
FLORIDA. He doesn't use his real name, Cornelius McGillicuddy, but then neither did his grandfather, baseball immortal Connie Mack. But by whatever name, Congressman Connie Mack III has come up lucky in the battle for the seat of Democrat Lawton Chiles. First Chiles withdrew after announcing for re- election. Then the toughest Democrat, former Governor Reubin Askew, also bowed out. Finally, Congressman Buddy MacKay won the Democratic nomination with only a month left to zero in on the far-to-the-right Mack...
...Radcliffe and Harvard orations areunusually challenging because speeches must beapproved for both written content and finaldelivery, Lawton said. In addition, she said thatthe oration offered her a chance to make a lastingimpression on the Harvard community...