Word: preyed
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...along. The problem has never been the music, but the pretentious and overly literal lyrics. Both "Jagged Little Pill" and "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie" painted a picture of an obsessive ex-girlfriend with a little too much time on her hands. "Under Rug Swept," Morissette's latest release falls prey to the same shortcomings...
...which time foxes, half crazed with fear, have been known to gnaw off a trapped limb. In turn, shooting often results in wounding, after which death can be slow and agonizing - surely no kinder than the quick end inflicted by other animals, which is after all the way most prey die in the wild. Even the government-authorized Burns Report published in June 2000 did not find a case for banning hunting on cruelty grounds when compared to other ways of culling foxes...
...every House’s character was formed around students’ mutual interests. Some Houses, like Eliot and Pforzheimer, fell prey to self-segregation by wealth or race, according to Matthew Gentzkow ’96, a tutor in Eliot House...
Still, not all hunts on preserves provoke an outcry. Many ranch owners keep exotic animals out of their collections or conduct hunts on grounds that give prey a sporting chance. The Selah Ranch in Austin, Texas, is a 5,500-acre spread covered by Spanish dagger and prickly pear, often with no sign of the elusive animals that live there. "There are a lot of exotic animals on this place that die of old age," says Mike Gardner, owner of San Miguel Hunting Ranches, which runs Selah...
...SMELL OF THE KILL Studies of skulls and braincases indicate that T. rex had a keen sense of smell, a key weapon in tracking prey. The dinosaur's nostrils have been repositioned as well: closer to the end of its snout rather than its eyes...