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...left the premises; state trackers soon picked up radio signals somewhere over Ontario that were emanating from the transmitter on her tail. "There's an excellent chance she'll return to nest," insists Bill Byrne, a state wildlife official. "It's perfectly normal for birds of prey to make long exploratory flights before settling into a pattern...
...coat of arms. Back home, in Parliament, he became a master of publicity. Violence in Belfast surrounded his preachings for Irish home rule. Even his worst notions drew attention. He offered a bizarre plan to incarcerate and sterilize the mentally ill. "Feebleminded girls," he said, "are the easy prey of vice and hand on their own insanity with unerring and unfailing fertility." The scheme was unworkable; the controversy precedented...
...There is a Nobel Prize for the person who figures out how the viruses select their prey," says Immunologist Paul Wiesner at the Centers for Disease Control, and "a second prize for the person who can figure out the latency of the virus: Just how does it select that perfect hiding place where it can stay for years without being destroyed by the immunological system?" Atlanta Virologist Andre Nahmias, one of the two scientists who discovered Type 2 in the late 1960s, predicts that it will be another seven to ten years before researchers find a way to prevent recurrent...
...England teams fell prey to the weather, however, and as the snow melted the confidence of Spring Break slowly slipped away and the team's mental sharpness faded into a psychological blur...
...only meaning of the musical is revealed in this opening scene and thereafter reiterated. Guido has been a lady-killer whose prey have turned on him and become his predators. The more devastating revelation follows: the playgoer could not care less about Guide's creative block, or the key women in his life...