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...long black caimans and razor-toothed piranhas. Each time the men were forced to portage their massive dugouts or hack a campsite out of the thick vegetation on the riverbanks, they were attacked by stinging, biting, disease-carrying insects. Nearly all the men, including Kermit and Roosevelt, fell prey to the suffocating fevers and bone-grinding chills of malaria. The jungle was also home to poisonous snakes. One night a coral snake slithered from under a fallen tree and sank its fangs into Roosevelt's foot. But for his thick leather boots, he would have died an agonizing death...
...courier--whom Jordanian intelligence refers to as Mr. X--for weeks. Fewer than half a dozen members of a U.S. reconnaissance and surveillance team from Delta Force hid in a grove of date and palm trees, watching the building. After years of hunting, they finally had the prey in their sights...
...politics, Paulson is also a nature enthusiast. He enjoys fly fishing and bird watching and, since 2004, Paulson has served as the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Nature Conservancy. He is also the chairman emeritus of the Peregrine Fund, an organization devoted to protecting birds of prey in their natural habitats. Before going into business, Paulson earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Dartmouth, where he was also an all-Ivy football lineman and a member of the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa. One student on the committee that picked him as speaker...
...even Wile E. Coyote can run on thin air. While pursuing his winged prey, Wile E. would always end up running off the edge of a cliff. But he wouldn’t fall right away. Instead, his animators usually drew the coyote continuing to run in the air. After a few gravity-defying moments, Wile E. would slow down and take a look around. Realizing that he had left the cliff (and a laughing Roadrunner) far behind, he would plummet to earth...
...plenty of them - who all of a sudden think they are running the country, because in a lot of ways they are." It's this power that makes them the target of lobbyists and influence peddlers, and it's their lack of status that makes them such easy prey...