Word: wildness
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...please forgive me my generalizations—the danger of our passing directly from sober childhood to sober adulthood. What troubles me is the danger of our being too intent on someday sowing grass seed in our front yards in Greenwich, Connecticut, to ever sow any wild oats. It is not our precocious adulthood that troubles me so much as our precocious yuppiedom...
...object to wild animals killing and eating each other...
...Cheryl Knott is one of the world’s leading field researchers studying orangutans in the wild. She embodies the National Geographic mission —leading a research project that is answering basic questions about wild orangutans while at the same time working to conserve a species that is fighting for survival,” said Barbara Moffet, a National Geographic spokesperson...
...Dwayne and Denny Mullet, whose last name--and pretty much their entire character development--comes from their "business in the front, party in the back" haircuts. The season's least likely Peabody Award candidate, it's a good-natured celebration of American cheese--wrestling, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Girls Gone Wild videos--that pits Dwayne and Denny against their stepdad, a self-important, wealthy game-show host (John O'Hurley, who was the self-important, wealthy J. Peterman on Seinfeld). Co-creator Josh Weinstein says the clash is meant to be a throwback to the populist comedy of the Clampetts...
...technique is to force-feed ducks with cornmeal through a tube put down their throats several times a day, causing their livers to enlarge. Guillermo Gonzalez, owner of the Stockton foie gras farm, says the procedure doesn't harm the birds, whose livers are enlarged naturally in the wild before they migrate. Counters Sarahjane Blum, a spokeswoman for GourmetCruelty.com "If this were being done to dogs or cats, the producers would without a doubt be in prison for animal cruelty." Anyone for caviar? --By Terry McCarthy