Word: leopard
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...retail for the past five years, including stints at the Gap in Harvard Square. Yet his Mather dorm room has taken on a very un-Banana tone since he desperately sought to fill his empty common room in his first year. At a fabric store he found a giant leopard-print cloth that has graced the walls of his Harvard pads ever since. “It’s really not my style,” he insists, “but it has stayed with...
Maybe it's the silencing stare of the leopard that explains why none of the five children and two women carried off by big cats around the southern Indian village of Bori Budruk cried out. To look a leopard in the eye is to be rendered mute with primitive, mind-numbing terror. Vilas Dattu Jadhav says his daughter's killer crept across a stubble field to the front of his one-room shack, leapt through the door, lifted Deepali off the floor by her neck and bounded into the sugarcane fields before he noticed. He was standing five meters away...
...Some did. Of the 13 leopards found dead around Bori Budruk since January 2000, postmortems showed all died of starvation. But this summer things took a savage and unforeseen turn. The animals adapted. In the tamed landscape in which they found themselves?neat rows of tomatoes and cornflowers and chrysanthemums for export to Europe?leopards came across man-made forests of towering sugarcane. Far from being just a make-do home, says forestry chief Ashokkumar N. Khadse, the cane fields proved to be an ideal leopard habitat. The animals flourished in the impenetrable thickets, producing two litters a year...
...lush land that gave the villagers of Bori Budruk their wealth seems to have sown in them a rare equanimity. They see the cats not as parasites that need eradicating, but as part of the cherished natural order. "A human life is more important than that of a leopard," says Madhu Jadhav, whose 10-year-old niece Shradha survived being dragged from his porch by a leopard in August. "But the leopard does need to be saved." Most villagers agree with Wayal, the forest officer, that relocating the animals to a sanctuary, however long it takes, is the only conscionable...
...building, which housed the Market Theater for a little over a year, now looks like a Betsey Johnson boutique—leopard and zebra-print carpets line the floors, pinks and purples dominate an unusually bright color scheme, and whimsical chandeliers illuminate the room...