Word: metallers
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...core of the PSP: the games. Of the five provided for review - Wipeout Pure, Twisted Metal Head-on, Gretzky NHL, NBA and World Tour Soccer - none strike me as a must-have the way Grand Theft Auto became for the PlayStation 2. Still, they are pretty incredible for such a small device. The graphics and game play sophistication rival that of Sony's home system, the PS2. The sports games almost exactly mimic their "big-screen" counterparts with full rosters that you can manipulate and on-the-fly playmaking. Wipeout Pure, part of the futuristic Wipeout racing series...
...each, the 24 titles initially available for the PSP aren't cheap, so it pays to choose wisely. Action-packed sports games like NBA Street Showdown and World Tour Soccer are good bets, as is Twisted Metal: Head-On, a demolition-derby title that you can play with others over the Internet using the PSP's built-in wi-fi. For a more cerebral thrill, try Lumines, a puzzle game with cascading blocks that's totally addictive...
...laying hens are arguably the most mistreated animals in modern agribusiness. In the United States, 300 million hens—nearly one for every American—are intensively confined in “battery cages,” which are filing cabinet-sized, barren metal cages so small the birds cannot even spread their wings, let alone engage in other natural behaviors such as nesting, foraging, perching, or even walking. Millions of male chicks are killed annually because they are unable to lay eggs and are different breeds from chickens raised for meat. Right after birth, they are gassed...
Their mothers suffer even greater mistreatment. Like chickens in battery cages, sows are confined in individual metal crates so restrictive that they can’t turn around or even move side to side more than a few inches. They withstand cycles of impregnation, gestation, and giving birth. Intense frustration results in debilitating stress-induced behaviors such as biting on cage bars and obsessive sucking on their water bottles...
...Forming nouns with the sense ‘that is absent’, ‘that does not exist’, as no-confidence, -cover, etc. (e.g., 1948 D. BALLANTYNE Cunninghams: “Ralph showed off, riding no-hands and skidding in the loose metal...