Word: leopards
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...mountains of Ladakh in Northern India, pashmina-goat herders keep their animals outside at night in the cold so that they develop the soft, thick wool prized around the world. But doing so makes them prime targets for snow leopards, which are particularly hated by the herders because of their tendency toward mass slaughter. "When snow leopards get into a pen, their predatory instincts are repeatedly triggered, and they go on a killing frenzy," says Rodney Jackson of the Snow Leopard Conservancy. "Killing 20 or more animals at a time is not uncommon. One hundred and seven sheep...
...about the attempts of a general's daughter to transcend her loveless marriage to a feckless history professor, is as misanthropic as ever. And terrible, in that Blanchett's performance inspires awe from the moment she first rises from her sofa to stretch, as smooth and svelte as a leopard...
...most people like generic bone. "The finest specimen of a marsupial lion jaw that's ever been found," he declares. It seems to have belonged, he explains later, to a previously unknown, intermediate species of this most ferocious marsupial - a link between the cat-sized Priscileo and the leopard-sized Wakaleo - whose lineage coexisted with Aborigines before dying out 35,000 years ago. "Nearly 30 years of digging," says Lizard Cannell, the team's explosives expert, "and we're still finding firsts. All the time...
With sequins on. When Sydney swimwear designer Nicole Zimmermann sent male models down the catwalk last week in jewel-encrusted bathers, the crowd went crazy. "With boys coming out wearing leopard-print trunks, you'll always get attention," said a spokeswoman. To their credit, the boys held their own all week...
...lines of the original text but also fills it in with topical allusions and makes allowances for modern settings. The characters are in modern costumes, which appear to have come from the cast members’ closets (instead of a lion skin, Hercules makes do with a fake leopard skin jacket). The staging has likewise been updated; Dionysus brandishes a copy of Let’s Go Hell, the infernal judge Aeacus is an Army drill sergeant, and the contest between Aeschylus and Euripides is presented as a game show. While bizarre, these settings make good sense; the Chorus political...