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...Even mammals, warm-blooded in metabolism and-we like to think-temperament, can play a similarly pitiless game. Runts of litters are routinely ignored, pushed out or consigned to the worst nursing spots somewhere near Mom's aft end, where the milk flow is the poorest and the outlook for survival the bleakest. The rest of the brood is left to fight it out for the best, most milk-rich positions...
...portal replaces the 7-year-old Research Matters site, which will be taken down in the near future...
...take long to discover just why. The cops were waiting outside the arena to shake down the approaching guests for any number of supposed infractions, such as a lack of local passport registration or just looking sufficiently moneyed but insufficiently connected. The police parked a battered old bus near the entrance, and once they hauled someone inside, it cost minimum $40 to secure an exit...
...frequent filibusters, they have laid on the pressure, particularly on the four Republican incumbents from states trending Blue. The four - Maine's Susan Collins, New Hampshire's John Sununu, Gordon Smith of Oregon and Norm Coleman of Minnesota - are constantly on the spot, whether it's because of near-weekly votes on President Bush's strategy in Iraq or popular legislation to expand stem cell research and children's health care. The strategy has forced some defections, such as Collins and Coleman on Iraq and Sununu on children's health care. "Sununu voted for [a bill to expand state children...
...what can preppies bring to the semidesert kingdom? Some of the evidence is already on display at the campus, near Madaba, a farming town about 30 miles (48 km) south of Amman, Jordan's capital. Yes, there are boarding-school staples like family-style meals at round tables, school-wide meetings, blue blazers and khaki pants. There's also the rather revolutionary belief that the classroom should be an intimate place that fosters discussion and critical thinking rather than rote memorization, which is the default teaching method in much of the region. But more important is the school's effort...