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...human backside also gets a dozen pages. It is instructive to realize that a man can be so stupid that he doesn't know his a -- -- from a musket (earliest citation, 1862), his elbow, a hole in the ground, a stalk of bananas, a hot rock, Mammoth Cave, a hole in the wall, third base, his left foot, pork sausage, the back side of a checkerboard, ice cream or a pitchfork...
...chaos has left the local wildlife departments broke and officials susceptible to bribes. Amid this collapse of enforcement, "the poacher owns the taiga," says Steven Galster, who monitors conservation efforts from Vladivostok for Britain's Tiger Trust. Not content with staking out areas frequented by the cats, some hunters stalk the Amur tiger on horseback with the help of dogs...
...Lone Wolf" and "Predator" thieves stalk their victims alone or in pairs and are the cause for the citizen's primary concern, the report says...
...curiously that renders her vulnerable. A world of blurs and shadows is scarier to her than the darkness she has known. One of these developing shadows, as it happens, is that of the man who murdered her upstairs neighbor. This means, of course, that he is going to stalk...
...story unfolds, the perceptions diverge, and by the end of the semester, the college faced a crisis. Clinansmith says Yearwood began to stalk her, to lurk outside her dorm and send lewd and threatening messages. Yearwood admits to some aggressive flirting -- at one point, he reached out and caressed her cheek -- but denies doing anything wrong. In the end, Swarthmore president Bloom made a decision that some might call Solomonic and others a - novel attempt to pass the buck. Bloom found Yearwood guilty of intimidation (but not sexual harassment) and offered him a deal. If the young man would enter...