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...their winter dens or vice versa, says Rockwell. Most intriguing of all is the possibility that the two species might interbreed. "These guys only split off evolutionarily about 150,000 years ago, so hybrids are viable," he says. That's no speculation: DNA analysis has proven that a bear shot in 2006 in Canada's Northwest Territories was part-grizzly, part-polar bear; the names "grolar bear" and "pizzly" have been floated in reference to it. (The hunter who killed the animal was spared a fine because the local laws against hunting bear apply only to grizzlies.) "I think...
...folks could almost be seen as Vietnamese civilians, politicized by attacks on their village and fighting back by any means necessary. There's also the fluoridation angle, which played into suspicions, held mostly on the Right, that the Communists could poison us in our kitchens without ever firing a shot. These days, a tap-water plague would be more limited; in ritzier communities, the drinking glasses and the dog bowls are filled with Evian. But for its time, The Crazies functioned as a compendium of paranoia. Rarely has a conspiracy thriller exploited so many fears. (See the top 25 horror...
...Students get one shot at life, one shot to leave the world a better place than they found it,” said Steve Jarding, a lecturer who has worked with Overbeek in his time at the Kennedy School...
Still, it won't bury another bone of contention: the arrest warrants that have been issued by a French investigating judge for several members of former Tutsi militias who now sit in Rwanda's government. The men are suspected of having shot down the plane of the nation's President, a Hutu, in 1994 - an attack that sparked the genocide, which, in turn, allowed the Tutsis to reclaim power. The judge's inquiry, which seeks to determine if the Tutsi militias could have engineered the massacre of their own people in a Machiavellian scheme to take control, is what prompted...
...that exploded. It blew the wall out of a brick warehouse building in North Philadelphia. Inside, there were six 500-gal. tanks. If you ran that every day, you would make about 4,200 gal. of moonshine a week. I was blown away. If you sold that by the shot, that's about $10 million. That amazed me. I thought, along with everyone else, that moonshine was just something made by lazy hillbillies. (See the top 10 Prohibition tales...