Word: nut
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...pastures surrounding the ponds and marshes of the Pantanal, herds of capybaras, the world's largest rodents, munch on the native grasses. Hyacinth macaws, the world's largest parrots, nest in trees and crack palm seeds disgorged by cattle, which eat the fruit around the nut. According to Charles Munn, an ornithologist with Wildlife Conservation International, the cattle fill a niche formerly occupied by extinct giant sloths, which dined on palm seeds thousands of years before the first Portuguese settlers arrived. This happy coincidence is one reason why humans here get along with the 80 species of mammals, 230 kinds...
...good works range from sending in a SWAT team of tree experts to try to save Austin's beloved old Treaty Oak after some nut poisoned it (tree died anyway) to quietly helping the families of MIAS and other veterans...
...presents Chucklehead, Squid, Militex 1000, and Slow Poke Feb. 21 and Left Nut, Orangutang, The Balls, and The Barnies Feb. 22.528 Comm Ave., Kenmore Square...
What profit political correctness if you've got a nut case for a nanny? That, in essence, is the issue confronting Claire and Michael Bartel (Annabella Sciorra and Matt McCoy), exemplary citizens of that citadel of the new civic punctiliousness, Seattle...
...kinsmen, some Russian nationalists might try to seize other republics' territory. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the head of the spectacularly misnamed Liberal Democratic Party, has even made claims against Poland and Finland on the grounds that they once belonged to the Czars. You're not likely to dismiss Zhirinovsky as a nut case if you're a Pole, a Finn -- or one of the 6 million Russians who voted for him in the republic's presidential election last June...