Word: preying
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...abundant in the Square in the 60s, readily available at more than 20 independent book stores. Now, as 2007 draws to a close, Harvard Book Store celebrates the end of its 75th year in business. Its ability to hold its ground while its fellow locally owned bookstores have fallen prey to corporate outsiders means that the bookstore is now Harvard Square’s premier independent center for all things literary.STEADY GROUNDIn January 2007, the Harvard University Planning Office conducted a survey to determine the Harvard community’s opinions on the Square?...
...different races, ethnicities, and cultures. Force-feeding students a distorted view of diversity—or, for that matter, any view—is dangerous. We are relieved that the University of Delaware program has been halted. Other institutions must heed Delaware’s lesson and not fall prey to these sorts of unworthy polemics...
...Fewer than 20 breeding pairs of hen harriers, a legally protected bird of prey, are left in England. Hen harriers are one of two birds on the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds' "red list" - a designation reserved for species facing the greatest peril. Harry's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, is a patron of the RSPB...
Great! Adorable. You just have to make sure that the introduction is done well. As long as you don't have a prey-driven dog, or if you've raised them from puppy- and kittenhood so they view each other as family members, you're fine. You always want to make sure that the cats have somewhere to escape to, in case the dog or dogs get rowdy. So a good cat tree (or the back of a sofa) is always a good idea...
...Friday's ruling made clear that it was lawmakers - not Wilson - who had made the most serious errors. "We must acknowledge that Wilson's crime does not rise to the level of culpability of adults who prey on children and that, for the law to punish Wilson as it would an adult, with the extraordinarily harsh punishment of ten years in prison without the possibility of probation or parole, appears to be grossly disproportionate to his crime," wrote Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears...