Word: tails
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...probably have beaten him up and taken his per diem. The shy, scholarly Twigger's The Extinction Club (William Morrow; 222 pages) is about the elusive Pere David's deer, an anatomical cocktail of an animal with backward-facing horns, a long, thick camel neck and a donkey's tail. For centuries the only Pere David's in the world lived in a walled park outside Beijing, where they were hunted exclusively by the Emperor of China, until an enterprising missionary (the eponymous Pere) smuggled a few specimens out to the West. Tracking them takes Twigger around the world, from...
...smoke crawls into the picture. The dog stands on all fours, but its legs buckle. As the vapor rises, the dog topples onto its side, shrieking and writhing. For the next minute, the video shows the dog in the throes of death; the animal moans until finally its shaking tail falls still...
Because people won't give up their four-wheelers, the challenge is to reduce the tail-pipe emissions that contribute to everything from respiratory distress to global warming. "We have to build a sustainable transportation technology that doesn't ask people to sacrifice," says John Wallace, executive director of Ford's Think Group. Lighter-weight materials and cars can help reduce overall energy consumption, but the key is to find a better power source...
...smoke crawls into the picture. The dog stands on all fours, but its legs buckle. As the vapor rises, the dog topples onto its side, shrieking and writhing. For the next minute, the video shows the dog in the throes of death; the animal moans until finally its shaking tail falls still...
...took the demise of Swissair as an affront to their national identity, have an emotional stake in the new carrier's success. "If we created an airline and called it Cuckoo Air, maybe we wouldn't care as much," Garelli says. "But we put our flag on its tail, so we have a collective responsibility to make sure it flies...