Word: wildes
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...with me. When he was a small calf I allowed him into my house, but only with close supervision. As he grew, I curtailed his house privileges, both for his safety and that of my house. Gentle-seeming or not, an adult bison is 2,000 lbs. of wild animal and sharp horns. I caution your readers to understand that bison are not pets and should be handled only by experienced people with adequate facilities. Roger Brooks, Mancos, Colorado...
...MAINTAIN MY PRETENSE AS A TOURIST, I would have been safer staying north, near the game parks and Victoria Falls. But Matabeleland is a microcosm of Zimbabwe's implosion. Thousands in the region are dying of malnutrition. Hundreds of thousands survive by trapping wild animals or bare-handed mining. When I arrived in the gold-rush town of West Nicholson, I met with a local miner in his bungalow. Several times during our 10-minute chat, he would step out for a few moments. It soon became clear why. When I emerged from his house, two plainclothes officers were waiting...
...Paralytic polio, the condition caused by the wild polio virus, claimed its last victim in the United States in 1979 and the number of incidents worldwide was under 2,000 in 2006, according to a statement from an earlier study. But the virus has yet to be eliminated in some parts of the developed world...
...love in general” and found himself “really castigated by a group of bridezillas,” he says. After making a post with no references to weddings at all, the “Comments” section of the blog went wild. “This is your stupidest post yet. I don’t know why you are allowed to post on this BRIDAL blog, but I am going to quit reading it just to avoid your annoying, wholly non-wedding related posts,” one angered bride-to-be posted...
...have started to change for the better. In 2000, the Harvard College Dean’s Office lifted its ban on students operating for-profit businesses on campus. Prior, startups had to keep day-to-day operations out of dorms or their founders would face the Administrative Board. The wild successes of Sparknotes and Facebook proved that students had a knack for Internet novelties. Just this fall, the University allowed Dormaid’s laundry service to compete with HSA?...