Word: preyed
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...were once limited to the likes of Dian Fossey, the American researcher who lived for 18 years in the Rwandan forests before her murder in 1985. But adventure-holiday companies now take thrill-seeking vacationers into the jungles too. Escorted only by lightly armed rangers, the tourists are easy prey for the poor rebels...
There are still staggering obstacles in the way of a body-proud, open-minded and biology-affirmative female consciousness. Pressured to conform to impossible notions of beauty, girls are falling prey to eating disorders at tragically young ages. There are groups who object to any straightforward reference to female biology, like the school-library censors who periodically ban Judy Blume's Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, because it deals with menstruation. In the culture that came up with Baywatch, police officers still sometimes confuse breast feeding with indecent exposure. And, willfully or not, the evolutionary psychologists keep...
...that squalling and chattering would surely scare off the game. This inference was based on a particular style of hunting, familiar from Hemingway novels and common to the New England woods in October, in which a small band of men trek off into the wild and patiently stalk their prey, a deer or two at a time. But there is another way to get the job done known as "communal hunting," in which the entire group--women, men and children--drive the animals over a cliff or into a net or cul-de-sac. The Blackfoot and other Indians hunted...
Which is not to say that assassin is a frivolous activity. It has long been known that games are educational for offspring of all species. Games like assassin teach fledglings how to stalk prey, spot the enemy, devise an escape plan and avoid the crossfire. Harvard students translate: stalk run-away food at Annenberg, spot your professor at the Grill and find your way to the bathroom...
...bird on the front page of The Crimson (Feb. 25, 1999) is not a falcon. It is actually a red-tailed hawk, one of the most common birds of prey in North America. According to the field guide published by the American Bird Conservancy, both falcons and hawks are classified as raptors, and their body shape and markings may be somewhat similar...