Word: wildes
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...wild card is Syria, which has a strategic alliance with Iran, backs Hizballah, and serves as the logistical bridge between Tehran and the Lebanese group. Syria is in a position to put considerable pressure on Hizballah to cooperate. But unless Syria is either put under unbearable pressure, or is offered the carrot of a resumption of negotiations aimed at the return to Syria of the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since 1967, President Bashar Assad is unlikely to make a deal with Washington, especially at the expense of Hizballah and Iran...
...crucial part of many ecosystems--and their role in pollinating crops makes them important to the economy as well. That's why scientists are alarmed by a new study in the journal Science. Over the past 26 years, say European researchers, the diversity of species in British and Dutch wild bees--and the wildflowers they favor--has plummeted. That's not to say there are fewer bees (some species are thriving) but there are fewer varieties, and that is not good news. An ecosystem with fewer species is like a baseball team with only a couple of good pitchers: there...
...Spillane's attention to the particulars of violence, it has pretty much taken over action films, including the most ambitious ones. It's in the acrobattles of Sin City and the blood-love of Quentin Tarantino. The crimson orgasms that Sam Peckinpah brought to the screen in The Wild Bunch, Spillane had put on the page 20 years earlier, and reaped much the same condemnation...
...Running Wild Saturday, July 15, 10:12 p.m.: A child was running around in the upstairs apartment at 204 Holden Green. Officers reported that this issue needed to be resolved between tenants...
When Kaavya Viswanathan’s “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” made headlines for using passages “strikingly similar” to Megan McCafferty’s “Sloppy Firsts” and “Second Helpings,” an undergraduate wrote a letter to The Crimson, complimenting reporter David Zhou on his “infinite patience [for] reading countless crappy chick-lit passages...