Word: preyed
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...week at the launch of Sony’s new Playstation 3 console, Michael Penkala of Connecticut was shot in the gut with a sawed-off shotgun for refusing to turn over his wallet to a pair of masked robbers who saw the line of waiting gamers as easy prey...
...timorousness. If we're mindful of real dangers and flee when they arise, we're more likely to live long enough to pass on our genes. But evolutionary rewards also come to those who stand and fight, those willing to take risks--and even suffer injury--in pursuit of prey or a mate. Our ancestors hunted mastodons and stampeded buffalo, risking getting trampled for the possible payoff of meat and pelt. Males advertised their reproductive fitness by fighting other males, willingly engaging in a contest that could mean death for one and offspring for the other...
...result is an amplification of the process at the expense of the issues. Despite his pretensions at substance, Cohen falls prey to this trap, and while this may thrill those who find the electoral process more thrilling than their 21st birthday, the book is unbearable for the less politically inclined—or at least those more interested in the substance than the process...
...lives. Another priest, a church historian, points out that the habits of obedience, especially in a hierarchical religion like Catholicism, are particularly hard to break. And O?Grady was the kind of man who is capable of seducing a mother in order to gain easier access to his real prey, her children, both male and female. The trail of ruined lives he left behind - men and women incapable of marriage, of normal sexual lives - is a palpable sadness in this film. And that says nothing about the damage he did to the religious beliefs that were so important in their...
...effect the scandal has on voters--that is very much a matter of how scared parents have become. It's the difference between "The G.O.P. leadership messed up in a sex scandal" and "The G.O.P. leadership went soft on one of those monsters who are out there waiting to prey on my kids...