Word: preying
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...living by legally shooting and trapping the taiga's mink and sable. Comfortable even when the temperature hits -40[degrees]F, Fomenko can glide through the deep snow like a cat, carefully placing one foot in front of the other, so his footprints disappear in the steps of his prey. Now and then he stops, sable hat in hand, to do what he does best: listen to the forest. "When you live alone in the taiga for months," he says, "you get to know all the animals in these woods." Over the years he increasingly knew that excessive hunting, beyond...
...sort of have the nervous system of a prey species animal," she said. "I know what it's like to have a vigilant nervous system...
...Such images of feet probably dance through the head of at least one Harvard student: a red-haired fellow known to his prey as the dastardly "Shoe Rapist." He creeps among the bookshelves in Lamont and Cabot libraries, seeking out unsuspecting women and playing tricks to get his feet in their shoes...
Thought priding itself on updating its technology, the Faculty still falls prey to computer problems...
Neither CBS erasing its competitors nor Harvard trying to disguise Serbia is as pernicious as, say, Stalin airbrushing Trotsky out of group photos. But all attempts to change images prey on the tendency of humans to trust the camera, to assume that whatever they see is real. The loss of that trust is perhaps one of the more worrisome consequences of a few minutes' play in Photoshop...