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North America's biggest cat is making a comeback and seems to be heading east in the process. After retreating to the western half of the country for more than a century, scores of cougars--a.k.a. mountain lions--have been spotted in the Midwest in recent years, thanks to the species-protection programs enacted by most Western states in the 1960s. And though the number of tawny carnivores in places like Illinois, Iowa and Missouri is still small--since 2003, only two dozen sightings have been confirmed in the Midwest--Clay Nielsen, a wildlife ecologist at Southern Illinois University...
...officer investigated the theft of a green mountain bicycle worth $1,800 at Weld Hall. Four more bicycle thefts followed this one on the same day—two taken from Peabody Terrace, two taken from Harvard Hall...
...says at one point. “They pay you to sell the movie.” Sure enough, Rock did his duty on this particular call—selling the merits of the movie, sliding in a joke here and there, and walking away to enjoy his figurative Mountain...
...Like any mountain climb, the expedition will have its dangers, but the group is preparing to deal with any problem that might arise...
They will be climbing mountains with a maximum altitude of 18,000 feet, attempting to take the safest routes up these uncharted mountains. They will be able to summon a helicopter in the case of serious injury, but they will be 120 miles away from the nearest village and will have to get the injured climber off the mountain and back to their base camp first...