Word: mount
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Hrdy, who spent 1,500 hrs. observing langur behavior around India's Mount Abu from 1971 to 1975, documented the disappearances of 39 infants around the times of new male takeovers; she estimates that only half of all langurs survive infancy. While males shift constantly among groups, females usually spend a lifetime in one troop and cooperate in warding off danger...
...Evangelical movement is a quest for traditional faith and values, and so for our cover the editors decided on an American primitive painting, Christ's Sermon on the Mount, by an artist known only as Plattenberger. Painted in the mid-19th century, the picture now hangs in the family room of a Woodbury, Conn., doctor. It was placed there, says the owner, so that the children of the household could see Christ's admonishing gesture, and behave...
...reading and writing take precedence. Collins divides her pupils into three reading groups of varying ability, launching the five-year-olds with Aesop's Fables and assigning myths, novels and legends to the more advanced students. She draws up her own comprehension questions based on the classics ("Mount Olympus is the home of the Norse gods. True or false?") and has her pupils-who include her own eight-year-old daughter-memorize poems and Latin vocabulary. "Who can say that the classics are too hard for eight-year-olds?" she argues. "Why spoon-feed them until they choke...
Alaskans plan a new capital at the foot of Mount McKinley...
...fast streams and crystalline lakes ringed by pine-covered mountains. It is also the site of a geological formation that has become a symbol of the Granite State: 40 feet of rock, perched far up a mountainside that has been sculpted by rain and wind into a craggy, natural Mount Rushmore-like profile known as the Old Man of the Mountains...