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...swiftly severing its brain stem, the men examine its entrails. "She was eating well out there," says Graziani, noting the large fatty deposits and the animal fur in its stool. But with everyone from politicians to glades crackers pledging to stop the python invasion, the snakes are now the prey...
...officials say the harsh language was intentional. "We talked about it beforehand and intended to deliver a message," says a senior Treasury official. Both on Capitol Hill and in the regulatory agencies, Geithner felt, the "searing experience" of last fall's near meltdown of the global economy was falling prey to inertia and in some cases lobbying. "The reality is that there are pretty powerful vested interests fighting this," says the senior Treasury official. "It's not the entire industry, but they have an interest in fighting change...
...rather the handler. "The animal knows what he is smelling, and everyone else has theories of what he's smelling," says Russ Hess, executive director of the U.S. Police Canine Association. For hundreds of years, humans have relied on the ability of dogs to distinguish scents to track prey, whether in the hunt for food or the search for a prison escapee. Bloodhounds are the recognized experts in supersensitivity to odors (some states allow scent evidence only from bloodhounds to be admitted). But even the best-trained scent dog - and Hess says the dogs require constant training - can make mistakes...
...Repeated attempts to adopt a uniform policy across the hospitals have fallen prey to the hospitals’ independence...
...just with his work, but with Dickens the person. So far this year he's turned up as a character in Dan Simmons' Drood and Matthew Pearl's The Last Dickens, both of which deal with his final, unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Writers love to prey on their own kind anyway, but what's so intriguing about Dickens is the disconnect between his life and his art. His novels are full of last-minute redemptions and neat resolutions, but his life was a mess worthy of reality TV. (Watch TIME's video about Dickens World...