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...5º with wind chill in Brooklyn this morning--ideal weather for SUV hunters to stalk and tag their prey, since the vehicles' owners are likely to be indoors. One tagger, who says her name is Wendy, girds herself for the hunt with two layers of sweaters, a silky orange-and-cream scarf and a handful of bumper stickers. "I feel like I should be putting on camouflage," she jokes, "to Pink Panther music...
...brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own, and having pow'r T' inforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. . . . And worse than all, and most to be deplored As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man? And what man seeing this...
...hearing allow them to detect intruders or mines far better than their human counterparts. A sea lion can swim up to 25 m.p.h. for short bursts, enabling it to nab an underwater foe by snaring it in a clamp placed in its mouth. The sea lion then hands its prey, whether a submerged mine or a swimmer, over to human handlers...
...boats operating in the northwestern Atlantic from 1986 to 2000. The fleets were hunting swordfish and tuna using what are known as longlines, cables stretching as long as 20 miles that are equipped with more than 500 baited hooks. Toss a line overboard, and up should come your desired prey--plus a lot of other hungry fish that you didn't mean to snag. "Longlines are designed to collect large marine predators," says biologist Julia Baum, lead author of the Science paper. "But sharks often swim in the same area as tuna and swordfish, and that means they...
...African American who has been a Republican since 1980. Lott and his crew promote and prey on the fears (real and imagined) of salt-of-the-earth European Americans. Republicans who are racist promote distrust and hatred of minorities as a way of dealing with the fears of good common folk. When enough progressive citizens decide to join the Republican Party, people like Lott and others who oppose integration will have to find another vehicle for their cowardly ideology. MICHAEL P. BERRY Phoenix, Ariz...