Word: truck
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...were a 12-year-old boy on a solo Save the Whale campaign, well, you'd slap your favorite marine mammal into a truck for a drive to the Pacific Ocean. And to keep him refreshed, you'd probably run him through an automatic car wash. And then, like an animal tamer who uses love instead of a whip, you'd get your adorable orca to leap over a high jetty so he could be reunited with his pod. You'd go that far for a friend. Where there's a whale, there...
Kleinfelder has paid a price for her public criticism of the athletic department. A day after she was quoted extensively in a December Crimson article, her truck tires were slashed in the parking lot of the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis Center...
...using this unique opportunity to respond to pent-up ecological concerns, particularly the needs of fish. Many of the dams up for relicensing will be required to take costly steps to help fish reach their spawning grounds and then return. That could mean ladders, lifts, pathways or "trap-and-truck" measures, in which truckloads of fish are ferried around the dam and released...
...June 28, New York State troopers spotted a pickup truck without a license plate cruising Long Island's Southern State Parkway. The officers tried to pull the vehicle over, but the driver refused to stop. The ensuing chase ended 15 minutes later when Rifkin, 34, obliged his pursuers by crashing into a utility pole. The troopers opened the door. They removed him from the cab. They cuffed him. And then somebody noticed the odor coming from beneath the tarpaulin in back...
Pursuing these high-impact, hot-button stories can pose dangers. For one thing, there is the tendency to overdramatize and oversimplify. The most notorious example was the rigged crash test of a GM truck on Dateline NBC. Though many network executives dismiss the incident as an aberration, it is symptomatic of the pressure to make stories that sizzle. "The constant race for ideas leads to a tendency to sensationalize and blow things out of proportion," says Everette Dennis, executive director of the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center...