Word: mate
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...parent would have a hard -- and dangerous -- time handling a child while foraging for food. "If a woman was carrying the equivalent of a 20-lb. bowling ball in one arm and a pile of sticks in the other, it was ecologically critical to pair up with a mate to rear the young," explains anthropologist Helen Fisher, author of Anatomy of Love...
...heartache is a cliche in country music. On this album McEntire adds something special: a sort of time-to-put-myself-first feminism. On her 1986 hit Whoever's in New England, she took on the persona of a still devoted housewife pining for her itinerant, philandering mate: "You'll always have a place to come back to, when whoever's in New England's through with...
...husband in his sleep. Prosecutors call it an act of vengeance, and in the past, juries have usually agreed and sent the killer to jail. Michael Dowd, director of the Pace University Battered Women's Justice Center, has found that the average sentence for a woman who kills her mate is 15 to 20 years...
...classic example of what scientists call evolutionary convergence, female Ormia flies and female crickets have developed similar eardrum-like devices to serve differing goals: female crickets need male crickets to mate; female flies also need male crickets to reproduce. They use them as depositories for parasitic larvae that infest, feed on and ultimately kill their hosts...
...last few days, Bush had grown unpresidentially shrill, repeatedly calling Clinton and his running mate Al Gore "bozos." But on election night he bowed out graciously. "We respect the majesty of the democratic system," he told supporters, and he congratulated Clinton on a "strong campaign." In % Little Rock, Arkansans literally danced in the streets at their Governor's victory. Appearing on an outdoor stage, an exuberant Clinton repeated some of his campaign themes, asserting that the people had said "we want our future back, and I intend to help give it to you." But he participated in the ritual...