Word: oxen
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Nebuchadnezzar was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen...
...best things to take home are memories of a way of life that still exists in only a few places in the West. When has anyone there last seen a horse and cart on a four-lane expressway? Or oxen tilling a field? Or a Gypsy asleep at the reins, rolling down a main road...
Gypsy wagons rolling down a main road, plows pulled by oxen, and other Bruegelesque scenes lend charm to Romania, Hungary and the rest of the East bloc. But be prepared for inconveniences and overcrowding...
...anti-drilling activists argue that the area is just too sensitive to stand the strain of oil production, even if a spill never occurs. A few roads and airstrips in this seemingly vast wilderness, they say, could cause permanent harm to the habitats of caribou, musk-oxen, polar bears, golden eagles and wolves. For evidence to back their argument, the preservationists point to Prudhoe Bay. The weight of trucks atop temporary roads has cut into the mat of vegetation that makes up the tundra, allowing sunlight to weaken the top layer of permafrost beneath. The result: ever deepening ruts that...
...promises to be a classic struggle. On one side: environmentalists, guardians of the 18 million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which sits on Alaska's North Slope near the Canadian border. An untouched domain of musk oxen, polar bears, golden eagles, wolves and a cherished herd of 180,000 caribou, the preserve is one of the nation's last pristine animal ranges. The opposition: developers who seek the vast energy riches believed to lie beneath the refuge's 1.5 million-acre coastal plain. These reserves may hold as much as 5 billion to 30 billion...