Word: slaughtering
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...still compelled, despite your rational logic? What sort of beast am I? Henry: Beasts of burden. That’s right, draft animals, kosher hunks of meat with cloven hooves and mouthfuls of cud. Together we are herded underground, into dark, crowded bars, to await the slaughter of the opening act, dreaming of DMB popping out and doing a 50-minute jam on “Tripping Billies.”“That One Show” is so dependent on so many things, from band creativity to crowd enthusiasm right down to the smell of the venue...
...been strongly sympathetic to the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, which it has viewed as leading the resistance against American and other foreign forces. (After the bombings, Kuwaiti commentator Ahmed Rabi scolded the Jordanian media for its past "defense of the black violence in Iraq.") In justifying the slaughter, a statement from Abu Musab al Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's Jordanian-born leader in Iraq, explained that the Amman hotels were targeted because they were "used as a garden for the Jews and Christians...as a base for infidel intelligence forces who are conspiring against Muslims...
...first human outbreak of BIRD FLU in Hong Kong sounded a warning for the future. So far, the new virus has shown no evidence of reassortment. The fact that the outbreak happened before Hong Kong's regular flu season reduced opportunities for reassortment, as did the prompt slaughter of the chickens. What researchers fear most is that someone infected with a common flu strain will also become infected with H5, and thus become an inadvertent mixing chamber for the production of a wholly new virus...
...could be avoided if we stopped raising poultry for human consumption. Chickens could still be preserved for egg production through breeding in controlled laboratories. That would be a drastic step, but it is necessary for disease prevention. If governments do not wish to do that, they should concentrate the slaughter of poultry in a few (very few) regional slaughterhouses to reduce contact between chickens and humans. The time...
...game like this begs the question—why hasn’t a slaughter rule been instituted in the Ivy League?The Harvard football team (5-3, 3-2 Ivy) scored 41 points by halftime, a school record for first-half output, on its way to a 55-7 rout of Columbia (2-6, 0-5) at Wien Stadium on Saturday. Sophomore quarterback Liam O’Hagan, assisted by backup Richard Irvin, led the team up and down the field, scoring six offensive touchdowns.But the real standout plays came from the defense, which added three interceptions and recovered...