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...they do the work of the pack, most notably helping care for other wolves' pups, in what Fox calls "a time of apprenticeship and service to their society." In any pack, however, unless its ranks have been seriously depleted, only one female each year gives birth to a litter. Even more notable, some studies suggest, the alpha male (or executive wolf), who makes all pack decisions and conducts the hunt, tends not to breed-perhaps because it would distract him from command. Says Fox primly: Man needs to "emulate the wolf ... in exercising greater dominion over sexuality and incredible...
...final army of cleaners swept through the capital last week, cutting grass and scooping up litter. Several main thoroughfares were repaved and public buildings were repainted. A foreign ambassador was surprised to find 20 uninvited painters at work on his residence. "The place needed it," he shrugged...
...about and by celebrities actually deliver the shadowy scandals that fan magazines used to promise in misleading blurbs. And so many books are rattling once closeted skeletons that even gamy chronicles about the likes of Tallulah and Shelley have to fight for attention. Ordinary Americans, moreover, tend increasingly to litter casual small talk with personal secrets of a sort that only priests and the most trusted confidants once enjoyed...
...they go, they leave behind them a spoor of debris. According to an organization called Keep America Beautiful, Inc., no less than half a billion dollars was spent during 1963 to pick up discarded litter...
...plump 74-year-old woman in a faded nightdress answers the door. Almost incoherently, she explains how she collapsed that morning after walking into the kitchen. Vials of medicine for a heart condition litter the bedside table. The paramedics move in the EKG equipment and take a tracing. "An arrhythmic heart. Arteriosclerosis," announces Serov. "You know it often happens that the best we can do is offer help but not a cure. We can only make things easier for her." Serov decides against hospitalization-the woman did not want to go anyway-and orders her to stay...