Word: swarm
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This sort of outward development may be at odds with hip-hop’s basis in repetition and samples, pitting raw craft against the simple irreverence of stealing music. It’s no more risky than Madlib’s swarm of loops or anything the genre has already done, but it is curiously ambitious...
...Francesca B. Delbanco ’95 has opted against the swarm of dark bitter novels of late and written a light and uplifting debut, Ask Me Anything...
CRIMES OF PASSION Rough sex for many species can range from brutal love bites to lethal lust. Male dung flies, mountain sheep and some frogs, in their zeal to procreate, will swarm, harass and harm females, sometimes fatally. For Hawaiian monk seals, where males outnumber females 3 to 1, mating violence is so serious that biologists are worried that the species may be endangered...
much shorter distances from Albania to southeast Italy or from Morocco to Spain. But the would-be immigrants choose it because it offers the steadiest flow of outgoing boats. As the Somalis approach the edge of Kufra, a swarm of Libyans comes to greet them. "Tripoli! Tripoli! Benghazi!" the local men bark. "Where do you want to go? We have food. Do you want a place to stay?" Abdi Salan has little choice, agreeing to spend $150 for a hot meal, two nights' lodging and a jeep ride north to Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city. The Kufra smugglers convince...
...reasonably priced," he says. Local high school student Wang Hongting, another KFC habitu?, says, "The food isn't cheap, but it's kind of fashionable." Indeed, during the restaurant's grand opening in September, eight security guards had to be brought in to help manage the swarm of customers. "This happens every time KFC opens a new store," says Wang Weiming, manager of the Qiandaohu...