Word: preys
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Though girls tended to date older boys, the study found few behavioral differences between the sexes. There are promiscuous boys who prey on less experienced girls, says Bearman, "and girls who are predators of boys." Most relationships were "romantic"; only about 5% were sex-only "hookups...
...clear that mammals did fill some of the niches reserved for larger animals. "It's quite possible," says Anne Weil, a Duke University paleontologist who wrote a commentary accompanying the Nature report, "that they competed with dinosaurs for the same prey." And because they ate dinosaurs, she says, they may even have had an influence on dinosaur evolution. What sort of influence? "We don't know," she says. "That's how it is with the best finds. They leave you with more questions than answers." Those answers may be lurking under the barely scratched surface of Liaoning province. --Reported...
...Arabic TV network al-Jazeera, in which he offered a "final piece of advice for America ... You must choose between two ways of behaving toward Muslims: either you deal with them on the basis of respect and mutual interest or you treat them as easy prey." Scheuer says, "What bothered me is he said this is the 'final' time we're going to raise this. I had not seen them ever before say, This is the end of this discussion we're having with you." If al-Zawahiri intended his message to be a last warning...
...Even though the Sudanese Army reclaimed Tawila the day after the rebel attacks, the remaining civilians don't feel any safer. Far from protecting them, the townspeople say they are again the soldiers' prey. "They have treated the people in a bad way," says one man. "They beat us, they harass us, they take our things." And sometimes they rape...
...Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, helping its Nationalist-run counterpart shepherd U.S. aid shipments through China's countryside amid the chaos that followed World War II. The 26-year-old finds himself in what he calls "the kingdom of squeeze," where truckloads of rations, clothing and military supplies often fall prey to Nationalist strongmen who are as intent on lining their own pockets as on preventing the country from slipping into Communist control. Stationed in Shanghai and then Kaifeng, Rowan develops both a sympathy for the peasants caught between the battling political factions, and a gnawing desire to document the pitfalls...