Word: narrowed
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...hunters. Cheetahs have been forced to survive on urial and ibex--mountain sheep and mountain goats--which are impossible to chase on steep, stony slopes. "Cheetahs have to wait for them to come down to the foothills in search of water holes," says Hunter. "It means they have a narrow hunting window, and that is depressing their population." To rehabilitate the prey, which are all protected species under Iranian law, the scientists are pushing the government to better enforce protection against the nomads' poaching and restrict the ownership of firearms in the region...
...state in which Ralph Nader's candidacy could have a major impact this November is Pennsylvania, where Al Gore won by a narrow margin in 2000. Nader needs 25,697 signatures there to get on the ballot, and his campaign has turned in 45,000. But Democrats are challenging the petitions, claiming many of the names are repeated several times, as is the same handwriting, a practice known as round-robin signing. Part of the problem, opponents claim, lies with the people Nader hired to collect signatures: the homeless from Philadelphia's streets. Some of those homeless workers aren...
...could last at least several more years, has given new life to strategies designed to profit in a stalled market. All but vanquished during the long bull run of the 1990s, "market timers"--who try to catch a stock's highs and lows as it trades in a narrow range--are sprouting again. So are "market neutral" investors, who through options and other techniques try to hedge away any market movement but gain from temporary stock-price discrepancies...
...throng of trees, tall leatherwoods dropping white blossoms into the foam-covered eddies. Thick forest stretches away in every direction, and there is no sign of a human touch, until the third day, when, exhilarated after a series of simple rapids, we see heavy wires strung high across a narrow gorge. In 1982 protestors began a blockade of the river to stop government plans to dam it. They arrived a month before the bulldozers, and in the following months 1,200 people were arrested in a campaign so successful that the river's fate became a national election issue. When...
...other guide, Dan, warn us that a fall here almost certainly means death, even as they have to leap onto wet rocks themselves to unsnag the rafts. We pull our little craft on ropes, use them as bridges to clamber over, tugging them as we inch backward along narrow ledges above frothing water. We push and pull them over boulders midstream, dropping them in the water on the other side and jumping into them one by one. Adrenaline flows as fast as the current, and we eat lunch ravenously atop a huge boulder onto which we've dragged the rafts...