Word: slaughters
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Before she was a thriller writer, Karin Slaughter owned a sign company. Now she is an internationally bestselling author at the age of 34, with 5 million books in print. Slaughter's writing life is every author's dream, with a book contract in the high seven figures. Her latest novel, Faithless, is guaranteed to keep you nervously biting your nails, on the edge of your seat. The book is the suspense-filled story of a young woman who was buried alive in the Georgia woods, whose body was discovered by Slaughter's favorite characters, medical examiner Sara Linton...
...access to DeLay were desperately dialing House aides to forge new relationships. Those not tied to DeLay were calling the same staff members to gloat. "There's millions of dollars on the table," said an aide who had heard from both camps. "These guys are going to slaughter each other." What's left of the G.O.P. leadership, already beset by a raft of other political problems, was trying to figure out how to salvage the ambitious legislative agenda of more tax cuts, hurricane help and gas-price relief that they want to carry them to next year's midterm elections...
...WildAid, estimates that between 1% and 10% of smuggled animals are seized by government officials in efforts to combat an illegal industry worth billions of dollars annually. Between 1999 and 2003, Chinese authorities alone seized 18,850 live endangered wild animals, including lizards, pythons, turtles and rare fish. The slaughter is so extensive in Asia that traditional sources of supply have all but dried up for the most popular animals, and traders are forced to go farther afield to secure their prey. Poachers looking to fill orders for the popular pig-nosed turtle, which is prized both...
...people, most of whom suffered mild symptoms; one veterinarian died. Jan Odink, president of the Association of Dutch Poultry Processing Industries, says Dutch farmers support the policy: "It just takes some droppings from these passing birds to create a risk. And if you're too late, you have to slaughter in ever wider circles." The Germans are following the Dutch example, requiring that the outdoor free-range chickens among the country's 110 million commercial birds?some 11%?be kept indoors or covered once the autumn wild-bird migration begins. But the policy won't be universally adopted, because some...
...aftermath of terrorist attacks like the London subway bombings, it is often tempting to conclude that those who purposely commit suicide in the service of mass slaughter must be sick, evil, not quite human; they are not us. But as investigators pieced together the fragments of the plot that left at least 55 dead, Britons were forced to confront a reality nearly as disturbing as the attacks themselves: the killers were their...