Word: preys
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...cultural. In a society that prizes strength in its men, there's little to be gained by them in exhibiting anything less. But part of it may be hormonal. Before puberty, boys and girls experience depression in more or less equal numbers. As they mature, however, girls fall prey to the blues more often, perhaps because of the hormone storms that accompany female adolescence. Could the different mix of hormones that boys produce--particularly testosterone--be somehow protective? If so, might the falloff of testosterone as men age slowly strip this protection away...
...curb such ferocity. "Any student or teacher who tries to do politics inside here," declares one principal, Mufti Mohammed Naeem, "is kicked out in 30 minutes. But," he admits, "jihad is everywhere, in graffiti, the Urdu newspapers, in tea-shop talk." Once his students leave campus, they are prey to extremist groups...
...Devour the Americans just like the lions devour their prey. Bury them in the Iraqi graveyard." AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI, Osama bin Laden's lieutenant, featured on a videotape released days before the second anniversary of 9/11...
...course, even with the help of Kansas City's coolest, the trend watchers sometimes get it wrong. Youth Intelligence picked the WB action series Birds of Prey as a winner last year. (Birds of who? Exactly. It was canceled after a few episodes.) And the game is getting tougher. "Some of the companies we've worked with that used to get hair accessories made in China discovered that they couldn't do it anymore," says Brooks. "By the time a celebrity had worn it, it had appeared in IN STYLE, and then everybody wanted it right now, and then...
...comic superhero Blade (Wesley Snipes). With the technical expertise of Whistler, an old vampire hunter, he wages a one-man war against the seedier half of the rave crowd: its bloodthirsty vampires. No longer are they of Dracula’s ilk, who at least treated his prey like dainty four-course meals. Deacon Frost, the latest threat to humanity, wants nothing to do with such namby-pambiness and seeks to become the all-powerful vampiric avatar, La Magra. Blade, of course, is not big on plot; the movie’s true strength lies...