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...home team came out like lions after the half and the Crimson obligingly played their prey. Dartmouth scored early and often in the quarter to put the game away. After the middle of the period, the only real question was how large the final margin would...
...issue of social welfare is frequently mentioned by those who talk with Cohen. Maine has relatively liberal welfare laws, and many long-time residents feel that young men and women who aren't interested in working move to Maine to take advantage of the state's generosity and prey on the taxes of hard-working residents...
Squads of police have begun to comb the city to round up last-minute draftees. Those who can pay for freedom ($200 is the going rate) are released. Those who cannot end up in a muddy makeshift training ground at Prey Sar, a former prison camp. There a weeping new soldier told his story: "The police came to the restaurant where I worked at 9 a.m. and took me away. I have a wife and six children. They do not know where I am. I do not want to be a soldier. I don't want...
About the size of a modern lion, the sabertooth, or Smilodon (from the Greek words for "knife" and "tooth"), had powerful jaws equipped with two long fangs that it could use like daggers to rip into large prey, notably the poky, plant-eating mastodons that also inhabited the American continent. When the elephant-like mastodons began to die out, the sabertooth's days were also numbered. Slower afoot than modern tigers and possessed of a smaller brain, the sabertooth could not keep up with speedier prey that might have assured its survival. Indeed, archaeological dating of the remains...
...game. He played to a tempo, tuning it, gaging it, then throwing it out of kilter to come in for the big one. He was a heavy hitter who didn't rush his points, or throw-away shots with chancy acrobatics. He played like a wolf stalking his prey, always the challenged, never the challenger. And he was 17 before anyone his age really could put up that challenge...