Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...calling a pygmy chimp was in fact an entirely separate species. In the decades that followed, the physical differences between the newly recognized bonobo and its larger cousin were thought to be all that distinguished them. Then, in the 1970s, Japanese primatologist Takayoshi Kano began observing bonobos in the wild and noticed a key difference: in the bonobo culture, unlike the chimp or human culture, males were not the dominant gender...
...should take a wild ride inside an 8-ft. "German wheel" that looks like a huge skeletal snare drum, but Chris Lashua does somersaults and daredevil revolutions within the wheel as he steers it almost into the laps of the first-row spectators. Men are not supposed to be springboards, yet the Ukrainian and Russian acrobats in the "banquine" perform high-dive triple twists from the top of a four-man pyramid. Humans aren't built for the gorgeous torture to which Yves Decoste and Marie-Laure Mesnage submit themselves in their "hand-to-hand" body sculpture. Caked with white...
...stupidity of my assumption. I recover to ask him if that means he favors Dole but he's still unmoved. "I don't buy cigarettes," he explains, "I just bum 'em off friends. I'm trying to cut down, actually." He shakes his head at the ground, tossing his wild hair back and forth. "I've got to run track in the spring...
...night's debate. Inexplicably, Bob Dole forgot about his main message of the night until two-thirds of the way into the debate. Then, however, like Old Faithful, it was unstoppable. About once every two minutes, Bob Dole announced to the world that Bill Clinton was a big government, wild-eyed "liberal." The Bill Clinton who signed a welfare reform law more stringent than Ronald Reagan ever considered. The Bill Clinton who cut the size of the federal government to its lowest level since the Kennedy Administration. The Bill Clinton who lowered the deficit for four consecutive years...
...outrageous as the charge was (prosecutors say there is no evidence of any parental abuse), it was not a wild, Manson-like outburst. A career criminal who has been in and out of jail since he was a teenager, Davis knows that child molesters are not popular in prison, and he has been eager to deny that he raped Polly before strangling her. But his defiant statement made it "very easy" to pronounce the death sentence, Judge Thomas C. Hastings said. And Marc Klaas vowed to get the ultimate satisfaction. "The last thing Polly saw before she died was Richard...