Word: patches
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...Saldanha and Mike Thurmeier take with the dinosaur world ("I thought these guys were extinct," Ellie says, echoing our confusion), the movie does improve once it gets into the lush underground. That's largely because of the introduction of a moderately entertaining character named Buck (Simon Pegg), an eye-patch-wearing weasel who lives for the thrill of a dinosaur hunt. He's wisecracking, swashbuckling and, even with a pelt, harks back to Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow...
...particularly charged finding is that in most species besides humans, same-gender pairings rarely lead to lifelong relationships. In other words, when one attractive bonobo male eyes another in a lovely patch of Congo swamp forest, they occasionally kiss and then move on to other oral pleasures, but they don't bother anyone afterward about trying to legalize their right to an open-banana-bar ceremony. In fact, they are likely to move on to girl bonobos: most animals that engage in same-gender sex acts do so only when an opposite-sex partner is unavailable...
Despite the rough patch that Harvard hit midseason with a five-game losing streak, the Crimson players held their heads up and continued to push through until the last minutes of their season...
...Tigers were cornered into the narrow patch on Sunday after President Mahinda Rajapaksa had announced the day before that the Tigers were a spent force. "We are not after any person or any personal agenda. We want to rid this country of terrorism; that is why we went after the LTTE leadership," Lakshman Hulugalle, director-general of the Defense Ministry's Media Centre for National Security told TIME. "With the leadership wiped out, this organization cannot re-emerge." Army Commander Lieutenant Sareth Fonseka also said that Prabhakaran's death marked the end of the LTTE-led separatist war. "We have...
...millions of Indians making less than $5,000 a year who are unable to afford decent dwellings. "We have realized that there is an opportunity at the bottom of the pyramid," says Brotin Banerjee, CEO of Tata Housing Development. (Read "India's Top Automaker, Tata Motors, Hits a Rough Patch...