Among the animals killed were 468 white-backed vultures, 28 hooded vultures, 17 white-headed vultures, 14 lappet-faced vultures and 10 cape vultures.
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Both Turkey Vultures and Black Vultures -- two of the most common types of vultures in the US -- roost communally.
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In southern African countries, electrocution is considered a leading threat to endangered Cape vultures and critically endangered white-backed vultures.
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Unlike turkey vultures — they of the garish pink head, they of the wingspan that forms a telltale V in the sky — black vultures have a poor sense of smell and tend to follow turkey vultures around in their search for food.
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More than 500 endangered vultures that fed off the carcasses also died — the largest mass poisoning of vultures in Africa, Dr. Chase said.
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Vick's Vultures, Scott Warren We love a good military science fiction novel, and Scott Warren's new book Vick's Vultures looks as though it'll hit that sweet spot for us.
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Walston said the theory that a group of startled, recently-fed vultures vomited causing the meat showers was a highly plausible theory, and made sense with what we know about vultures.
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So were the pelicans ... the cheetahs ... ... and the vultures.
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The first is connected to vultures' place in the ecosystem.
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The vultures were already beginning to circle as I passed.
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Hope is what attracts fans, scouts, agents, and vultures alike.
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The vultures have been hovering over Monaco for some time.
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Doves and hawks (even vultures) can approach it for meaning.
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Vultures are noble and majestic animals — kings of the skies.
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"Even now the vultures are starting to circle," one analyst said.
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Griffon vultures nest on steep cliffs and feed on animal carcasses.
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Then there are more obscure names like a "venue" of vultures.
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"Even now the vultures are starting to circle," Ms. Govella said.
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A putrid smell hung in the air, and vultures circled overhead.
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" He adds, "This is the same technique of the culture vultures.
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Two vultures are now dads to a precious little vulture chick.
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To Fall Among Vultures by Scott Warren Scott Warren published his debut military science fiction novel last year: Vick's Vultures, a short, durable adventure about the crew of a starship that salvages alien technology from advanced civilizations.
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Somewhere else they will grow thick and terrifying and wise, then eventually they will die, and vultures or hyenas or tiny foxes will pluck out their eyes and then all those vultures and hyenas will die, too.
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Weber explains that gay vultures don't really do public displays of affection.
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Fernandez refused to negotiate with the creditors, who she derided as "vultures".
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In another, vultures ignore a dog as they pick at a carcass.
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Only the vultures are likely to continue wheeling over the whole landscape.
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This S. & L. doesn't need your explanation of what vultures stand for.
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The creatures shown include sunbathing bats, yellow-headed vultures and tiny monkeys.
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Here in their roost, a flock of culture vultures paraded their plumage.
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Turkey vultures circle, and a few longhorn cattle huddle under the mesquite trees.
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They came like vultures, hesitant, hovering, drawn by the pheromone of dying books.
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And the stones who've known all along tell the skies, invite the vultures.
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The vultures are definitely circling with regard to Pettis future with the promotion.
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Creditors hear themselves called "vultures" and fear being hit with all the losses.
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Turkey vultures circled overhead and danger hung thick in the humid fall air.
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Beck himself deliberately created 1999's Midnite Vultures as something fun to tour.
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The government said that the vultures had eaten from three poisoned elephant carcasses.
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Vultures are often killed when farmers lay out poison meant for other animals.
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In some parts of Africa, vultures are hunted for use in traditional medicine.
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Mr. Matthews was a member of a black metal band called Vodka Vultures.
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Now the vultures are picking away at the bones of Obamacare repeal plans.
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Then the vultures started swarming, asking if she wanted to sell the label.
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These vultures are investors looking for opportunities in distressed assets and bad debts.
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Black culture is always appropriated and the culture vultures always overlook the originators.
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Hordes of roosting vultures have descended on homes, city parks and even churches.
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Trailing high in the sky, floating in lazy circles, was a group of vultures.
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Still, you can tell that the vultures are Beatle-inspired in the final project.
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In another area, vultures hovered above mounds of dead fish rotting in the sun.
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The number of vultures in the region has since stabilised, though they remain vulnerable.
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That fault mattered less in "Dry Powder," about a trio of private equity vultures.
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"We see hawks and an occasional bald eagle and sometimes vultures," Ms. Lindner said.
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Other architects and prospective owners circled like vultures, ready to buy up the property.
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Undigested bones and fur can be found at the base of where vultures roost.
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In fact, they've encountered foxes, deer, groundhogs, turtles, frogs, turkeys, vultures, and even bears.
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This is similar to the "lifeboat strategy" seen in birds like vultures and egrets.
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Jews never belong enough anywhere to avoid vilification as parasites, vultures, usurers and traitors.
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For example, vultures can readily consume a carcass that has anthrax in it, or cholera.
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While typically harmless and kind, your grandparents become more like vultures at your family reunion.
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Five copyright complaints later, and some vultures are now making money off of his work.
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If anything, the researchers were expecting to find photos of vultures or other opportunistic birds.
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"The vultures are waiting for them at the gates of the hospital," says one nurse.
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Fake owls, helium balloons, and loud music have failed to keep the black vultures away.
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Presidents before him have groomed attack dogs and invited swine and vultures in the door.
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The discovery of the poisoned vultures this week drew fresh attention to the poaching problem.
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ANONYMOUS Without question, it's distressing to see vultures circling overhead — or over our steak frites.
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According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, black vultures are federally protected migratory birds.
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" President Bolsonaro said that "for those who like what vultures eat, it's a good film.
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The television talking heads pick over each and every juicy tidbit like vultures over carrion.
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Vultures are important members of the environment, as they take care of recycling dead matter.
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What they're not saying: The vultures are circling cannabis companies and spending big for the airspace.
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Dave GammonAssociate Professor, Biology, Elon UniversityEverybody knows that vultures are scavengers, that they feast on carcasses.
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The vultures of Britain's International Centre for Birds of Prey don't know it, but they're dupes.
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He also looks like one of the dimwitted vultures who gets foiled by Disney's Robin Hood.
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And yes, there are genuine culture vultures who are determined to mine our talents for themselves.
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The vultures were circling Leon Cooperman's biggest positions after the SEC announced at 10:47 a.m.
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But critics, such as VulPro founder Kerri Wolter, see vultures as an indicator of ecosystem health.
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It's not even like with other vultures, where they sit next to and groom each other.
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Gerald Hamilton could be one of those vultures, or he could have been staving them off.
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So a project that would kill off hundreds of animals might "improve" the habitat for vultures.
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The Russians trolls were just vultures: The carcass of truth was already dead in a ditch.
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Egyptian vultures and black-breasted buzzards use stone tools to crack open bird eggs for food.
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"Sexx Laws" opens Midnite Vultures with a huge brassy fanfare, a groovy guitar flapping around underneath.
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It's exactly 200 days into Donald Trump's presidency, and the vultures have already begun to circle.
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In 2013, 400 to 600 vultures were poisoned from a single carcass in Namibia's Caprivi Strip.
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Oh the crows and the vultures above his head Were brawling already over this live carrion.
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White-rumped vultures were nearly gone from India before there was widespread awareness of their disappearance.
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And then more eagles and vultures come along to eat the carcasses and also become poisoned.
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If there are no bodies in the street there are no vultures in the air. Fat?
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During the day, most of the vultures fly off and only about 20 to 30 remain.
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"I like to think of these two companies as the vultures of the retail sector," Cramer said.
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Their world is better off without piece of shit men buzzing around women like perpetually horny vultures.
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Under the "Vultures Detect" program, 10 trained birds wearing specially-designed vests have already started the job.
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I am always grateful to vultures, that indefatigable cleanup crew doing such necessary work along the roadsides.
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"A wide range of humanity believed that Beyoncé and Rihanna were inspirations rather than vultures," we read.
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In a possibly related incident, vultures were reportedly seen circling the campaign of Ohio governor John Kasich.
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Sure, there would still be hungry vultures and bacteria around to help, but it wouldn't be enough.
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Vultures are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and cannot be killed without a special permit.
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Sounds like you need a touching story about two male vultures taking an impromptu flight into fatherhood.
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We think of birds as feathered creatures, but vultures don't have any feathers on their head and neck.
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Vultures loitered on balconies and around the pool, which was coated in grime and puddles of standing water.
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A few early triumphs, like the 2000 takeover of what became Shinsei Bank, sparked a backlash against "vultures".
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Disney himself had the characters of the vultures created so the Beatles could provide the voices to them.
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The twist here is that the Checquy seems to be just as bad as the metahuman-hunting Vultures.
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Fernandez, whose eight years in power were deeply divisive, refused to negotiate with the investors, calling them "vultures".
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In 2013 an elephant carcass found in Namibia, Africa, was surrounded by as many as 600 dead vultures.
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Poetic imagery in that album painted vultures transforming into revolutionary fists and corrupt police getting what they deserve.
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Dozens, if not hundreds, of black vultures are terrorizing homes in a luxurious neighborhood in West Palm Beach.
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Weight-loss propaganda targets everyone, but if "thinspiration" and diet culture are vultures, women are their main prey.
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At nearly 2,000 feet up, the helicopter is level with a pair of vultures riding an air current.
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Only the endangered California condors and griffon vultures were taken to the Los Angeles Zoo, according to officials.
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Fernandez denigrated the holdouts as "vultures" bent on picking on the carcass of the country's earlier monster default.
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How can anyone say vultures bring bad omens when looking at such tenderness in this griffon vulture's eyes?
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Oh, and and there's a dog, all filled with mud, barking at vultures picking away at a carcass!
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And they're packed with a bounty that may be more precious to the vultures than an actual embryo: sensors.
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Scandals spur not just memes and roundups, but also new video formats that smaller creators glom onto like vultures.
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But vultures tend to gorge themselves when they eat because they don't know when they'll get their next meal.
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She reported a story, for instance, on how black vultures have crept northward as average temperatures have edged up.
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So, whenever they achieve success, the vultures come circling and the team is bled dry of its top talent.
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All coaches go through a public flogging after a loss, but the vultures inside Pastner's head were the worst.
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In her usual nuanced fashion, Warren has recently called private equity managers "vultures" for "looting" American companies and industries.
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Perhaps not right now, but as we've learned from Twitter, stagnating growth usually means the vultures start to circle.
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We were trying to figure out how we, the "rapacious vultures," might invest more money in these heartland cities.
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Last year, employees at the Denver Post garnered national support when they rose up against the "vultures" at Alden.
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They also ran a piece in the paper calling for someone to save it from the "vultures" at Alden.
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It seems that 300 vultures — yes, three hundred — have decided to call a Kingsville, Texas, radio tower their home.
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CBP, which operates the tower, is looking for "netting solutions" that could prevent even more vultures from nesting there.
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When they take their time, though, like Bain did with Burlington Stores, these so-called vultures can work miracles.
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Rocky's participation helped the brand reach a wider audience, affording it a measure of protection against fashion-world vultures.
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The building, built in the 1970s, has long since fallen into disrepair and has attracted a large colony of vultures.
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Luckily for condors and other vultures, California officially banned hunters from using lead ammunition July 1 to make scavenging safer.
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The paper's editorial board ran a piece in April calling on someone to save it from the "vultures" at Alden.
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Seeing the vultures swirling around Zinke, they know they may not have to plan anything elaborate for the Interior head.
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We will see how this new, less sovereign government fares going forward, now that it has settled with the vultures.
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So it was sort of weird then, when celebrity gossip vultures TMZ descended on him to ask him some questions.
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Encircled with vultures waiting for one of three car parking spaces, it feels like a petri dish for nervous breakdowns.
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Once 5:30 arrived, the judges descended like vultures upon the firms, placing their final touches on their baked goods.
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Vultures act as nature's garbage collectors, eating dead animal carcasses and helping to stop the spread of pathogens and disease.
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They follow vultures and the smell of baking flesh, or get rough directions from the coyotes who abandoned tired people.
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As mobile and efficient scavengers, vultures play a critical role in ecosystems, and removing them can have wide-ranging impacts.
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However, he told CNN affiliate WPBF that they can't live there because of to the vultures that continue to invade.
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Instead, the agency is searching for a "viable netting deterrent" to stop the vultures from roosting on the radio tower.
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You’re a knight on a flying ostrich tasked with taking down enemies riding flying vultures with a lance.
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Although bondholders have often been portrayed as vultures, many of them are small investors trying to save for a comfortable retirement.
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Turkey Vultures and American Crows, for example, do well living among people and may be able to survive sharing our space.
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Even Martin Shkreli, who became the poster boy for jacking up drug prices, called Mylan executives "vultures" for the price hike.
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In the same breath that people share their deepest sympathies for your loss, they'll also feed off your tragedy like vultures.
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They lead ceremonies in which the brains of vultures are smoked or drank in order to gain protection and personal enlightenment.
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Crows and kingbirds too defend their nests against vultures and great blue herons with aggression, Audubon field editor Kenn Kaufman says.
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Vultures eating the carcasses of animals recently treated with the drug died from severe kidney failure within weeks of ingesting it.
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But there were also those who were the "mouthpiece of vested interests" and others who were "vultures pretending to be journalists".
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The homeowners are blaming a neighbor, who they say is excessively feeding the vultures, and has even fed them roast chicken.
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A relentless swarm of black vultures has forced at least one family out of their home in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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"The importance of (investors) getting the return first before the vultures are on it is going to become clearer," Bogle said.
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Oh, and if your co-workers are vultures, it'll all be gone by the time you get out of your meeting.
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Transfer values averaged 400,000 pounds and reputable advisers were overwhelmed, creating the perfect conditions for vultures to take advantage, it said.
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As scavengers, vultures are attracted to freshly killed animals, and their presence in the air can alert rangers to poachers' positions.
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Portugal. The Man released their debut album, "Waiter: You Vultures!" in 2006 and booked their first headlining tour the next year.
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We see our virtues and vices reflected in animals — hardworking beavers, indolent sloths, innocent lambs, greedy vultures — through a glass darkly.
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The reality, however, is that venture capitalists are vultures and the vast majority of their investments fail spectacularly or perform underwhelmingly.
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CULTURE VULTURES SG: By around 3, if we're not at home spacing out on the sofa, we go to a museum.
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Large groups of vultures also smell like corpses – the species is known, of course, for feeding on dead flesh, or carrion.
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Their communal roosts can consist of upwards of thousands of vultures at a time, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
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SF Mayor Ed Lee leaves behind a conflicted legacy in a city known for being sanctuary for immigrants and unbridled tech vultures.
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Some sangomas—South African traditional healers—see vultures as a symbol of luck and a middleman between the physical and spiritual worlds.
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I mean, Isis and Nordhorn do sit with each other, but all vultures breed in colonies, so they're used to sitting together.
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With links to articles on vultures' projectile vomit and an Australian Army encounter with emus — all by the inventive writer Bec Crew.
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In India, where vultures have all but disappeared, populations of rats and feral dogs have soared, raising fears of severe disease outbreaks.
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Osweiler gets a good matchup Sunday night against the Indianapolis Colts, and he'd better play well or the vultures will begin circling.
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" He added that the pardons would be popular among the gathered news media because "after all, turkeys are closely related to vultures.
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And yet, hundreds of literal vultures are presently occupying a Customs and Border Protection tower in southern Texas at this very moment.
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Turkey and black vultures are common across the United States and can often be seen gliding in lazy circles in the sky.
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Cover art for a track called "Culture Vultures" surfaced on the web, which is supposed to feature Remy and her husband, Papoose.
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By feeding on decaying animal corpses, vultures play a critical role in keeping the environment clean and minimizing the spread of contagious diseases.
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In 2013, more than 500 birds, including vultures, were killed after eating from poison-laced elephant carcasses in Namibia, according to local media.
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The birds can come into contact with power lines, poison traps and a veterinary drug that killed millions of vultures in the 1990s.
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Ms. Fernández de Kirchner and her administration called the hedge funds "vultures" and "financial terrorists," and went as far as denigrating Judge Griesa.
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That would be a disaster, as it would give the vultures around him yet more time to pick the bones of the state.
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Vultures have been circling Twitter for well over a year, but the company has defied all experts who have predicted an imminent sale.
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Also known as culture vultures, this group will most probably shun Pokémon Go simply because it's too mainstream for their indie-minded liking.
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As tech companies flush with venture capital circle like vultures around the long-established and highly conventional industry, Orduña feels right at home.
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From Mutations, he went to the funky Midnite Vultures, but then, it was back to the soul-searching on 2002's Sea Change.
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Rodriguez's experiences as a member of the Road Vultures Motorcycle Club later manifested in black-and-white illustrations when he moved to Manhattan.
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In each case, the thieves slit the animals' throats and skinned them from the neck down, leaving the meat to vultures and hyenas.
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"Culture vultures are the worst," Vaynerchuk said in an interview earlier this year, insisting that he had come to the rap world honestly.
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He gazed out the window at the parking lot full of trucks, the Interstate beyond, the ever-present vultures hanging in the air.
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"The only thing keeping these YouTube vultures in check is other YouTubers … Don&apost come and ruin it for us YouTube," he said.
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Some vultures do so when competing for food as a sign of aggression, and the crested caracara blushes when it is excited or stressed.
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Without them, the vultures begin to circle, believing that they're losing their grip on their ecosystems — and with that, stock prices take a hit.
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We have Irish lesbian penguins at Dingle Oceanworld in Kerry; sapphic gorillas in Rwanda, and even gay German vultures co-parenting an abandoned egg.
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Vultures are also endangered as a result of the demand for their body parts for use in traditional medicine in certain parts of Africa.
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The European Medicines Agency confirmed in 2014 that the residues of diclofenac found in animal carcasses put vultures in the European Union at risk.
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And that means that the vultures are always circling, looking for whatever scraps they can pick off and repurpose as products of their own.
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The vultures have been in the area at least since May, when they started harassing Cheryl Katz, who lives next door to the Casimanos.
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We live on an unkempt half-acre lot in a neighborhood where most of the lawns are pristine, and vultures are not common visitors.
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Stuffed hawks, pelicans and vultures swirling around the building&aposs entrance are meant to depict epic avian migrations from Africa to Europe through Israel.
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In another, cartoonish tarantulas and a blissed-out frog join a few more vultures to flex their muscles like a high school wrestling team.
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Within this vision of the world's "knit of identity," the vultures, largest members of the group, have their place and the right to party.
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Among the dead birds were 468 white-backed vultures, the government said — a critically endangered species that was once widespread across the African continent.
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And so-called sentinel poisoning by poachers — likely the case with the vultures found dead this week — is a growing problem, Dr. Amar said.
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Vultures do a lot of good things for the environment, and they're tired of being dismissed just because they look creepy and eat carrion.
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There have also been claims over the years from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Sudan of the Israelis using vultures or other birds for espionage.
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For a radio tower and surrounding buildings operated by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) near the Texas-Mexico border, vultures are no joke.
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Right now, the agency is looking primarily into netting as a solution, which would drape over the towers to prevent the vultures from roosting.
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After all turkeys are closely related to vultures, I don't know if I like that line, but there is a little truth to it.
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Photo: Ryan F. MandelbaumOn a large plot of land beneath circling turkey vultures an hour north of New York City sits a crescent-shaped building.
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With the vultures now picking over the carcass of the tournament, we can inspect its inner workings, and diagnose exactly what went right and wrong.
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The 537 vultures and two tawny eagles were found dead in one of the country's protected wildlife management areas (WMA) in the eastern Central District.
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The summer he arrived, Adam Lallana, Luke Shaw, Rickie Lambert, Dejan Lovren and Calum Chambers were all swooped on by the Premier League's wealthy vultures.
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They are broadly known in Argentina as "vultures" for picking on the carcass of the economy after the default plunged millions of Argentines into poverty.
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"As soon as I stepped on that trail, it felt like, 'Oh, here's the dream, down to the two vultures that flew by,'" Gustafson says.
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Coordinators are also encouraging people to be "vultures on the ground" and to recycle or report illegal dumps by posting pictures on Twitter and Facebook.
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Then a carriage and a storefront, and then a whole town—vultures pecking away at road kill as a prospector and a nearby dog watch.
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Just as a poor showing in the early-voting states may help winnow the presidential field, a poor fundraising performance will get the vultures circling.
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Both Cobb and Kasowitz have naively provided publicity for the social media vultures they tried to crush -- to the detriment of their client, the President.
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The vultures profiting from Puerto Rico's misery are unlikely to go hungry; the same can't be said for the people who live on the island.
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Although vultures fly disconcertingly low (the better to smell you, my dear), almost all of the dozen or so species will swoop over your head.
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His abiding last memory of Texas, before he returned a couple of decades later, was of a dead cow in the road, beset by vultures.
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To save the vultures, conservationists are taking a closer look at their breeding habits, and an electronic egg is the newest tool to do so.
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"A company that isn't operating is a corpse, and the vultures start to circle it," said Juan Pablo Olalquiaga, president of Venezuelan industry association Conindustria.
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He described himself as the lead singer of a black metal band called Vodka Vultures, though there was little online evidence of the band's activity.
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Sure, Hong Kong is suited to Western culture vultures like me with a sprinkling of road shows, annual performing arts festivals and high-profile concerts.
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Conspiracy theories will always circle major world events and disasters like paranoid vultures, but with the Covid-19 pandemic they have been given a feast.
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"We have to resolve the case brought by the vultures, but under fair conditions," said house member Axel Kicillof, who served as Fernandez's economy minister.
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Though some turkey vultures migrate into Central and South America, many are not truly migratory, moving only far enough south to avoid winter's worst weather.
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With a wingspan measuring over five feet and a proportionately low body weight, turkey vultures have what is commonly described as a buoyant flight pattern.
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This backruptcylike case is not a simple narrative about greedy vultures picking over the carcass of a debtor, although it is often told that way.
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Carole Geddes, who has lived in Kingsville for 37 years, said she first noticed the vultures on the radio tower five or six years ago.
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Speaker Paul Ryan called them "vultures" for running ads against Republican members of the House in their home districts that falsely labeled bankruptcy a bailout.
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But these vultures have ways of combating all that: Their stomach acid is so corrosive that they can digest things that would make other scavengers die.
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The dedicated student quickly took on a research project that would eventually turn into her senior thesis paper – the study of feeding habits of turkey vultures.
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Between telling the kids to eat nice every five seconds and telling the dogs to stop circling the table like vultures, my mood has gone sour.
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"You've got a lot of investors like hedge funds circling like vultures," Dodd, who represents parts of Northern California hit by last year's wildfires, told Reuters.
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Dozens of black vultures have taken over, vomiting and defecating — and outdoor amenities, like barbecues, patios, and pool enclosures, are all now run by the birds.
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" The battle between the holdouts and Argentina reached a nadir under the previous president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who called the holdouts "vultures" and "financial terrorists.
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Along the way, they encounter a bumbling (but oh-so-charming) bear, some pretty fly monkeys, and a pack of vultures who look suspiciously mop-topped.
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Fernandez refused to negotiate with holdouts, who she termed "vultures," but Macri has worked toward settlements as part of his plan to improve the country's economy.
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In other states, winners have to sit through a news conference, and the publicity can attract all varieties of vultures who would look to take advantage.
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Of equal weight and length are Naamah's adventures underwater, her secret life with heavenly and dreamlike creatures — who can predict what cockatoos and vultures might say?
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Both funds were involved in a fight with Argentina about its bonds in 2014, during which Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, then the president, dubbed them "vultures".
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Vulture: Some 300 vultures are roosting in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection radio tower in South Texas, coating buildings with potentially hazardous vomit and excrement.
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Keep a look out if you are near the southern West Shore Expressway, as turkey vultures can often be seen high over the now-closed landfills.
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There aren't any nests or babies, but the vultures seem to have decided the radio towers are akin to a comfy recliner, and they won't leave.
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The appetizer set up this year was a stressful experience: picture vultures around a cheese table acting like this is the last carcass on the Savannah.
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The buffer zone and its fortifications shelter wolves and vultures from hunting, according to Shmulik Yedvab, of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.
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Still, in a political climate where lawmakers and presidential candidates routinely invoke health insurers as evil vultures preying on sick Americans, the left found its opening.
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The shoe company vultures have heard the thump of northern basketballs and see Canadian players pouring into top American college programs, and they are heading north.
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Carcasses might lay around for a long time before the vultures finally get to them—and a rotting carcass is going to attract a lot of toxins.
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Then came the realignment, a frenetic 15-minute period that saw the viable candidates' supporters swarm like vultures into the sections reserved for Biden and Yang supporters.
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With the vultures circling around the Jaguar, observers are wondering which of these current offerings might be the next to fall by the side of the road.
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The Vultures sell kids with powers, but the Checquy takes them from their families and uses unethical means to enhance their abilities to make them useful assets.
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Bush and Christie, who are rumored to have an unspoken alliance against the young senator, will be circling Rubio like vultures, looking for any sign of blood.
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Other attractions include presentations of live birds associated with Halloween, like owls, ravens and vultures, anda costume parade with stilt walkers from Alice Farley Dance Theater, above.
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Other attractions include presentations of live birds associated with Halloween, like owls, ravens and vultures, and a costume parade with stilt walkers from Alice Farley Dance Theater.
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Mr. Hannity joined this flock of vultures in 2012, buying distressed properties using limited liability corporations — shell companies that are often used to hide the real ownership.
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Finding and publishing it won't always avoid anger directed at the messenger, but journalists need to show they are truth seekers rather than vultures feeding on tragedy.
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The agency released a request for information (RFI) this week seeking possible solutions to the approximately 300 vultures roosting on the CBP radio towers at Kingsville, Texas.
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Scientists emphasize that vultures play a key role in the ecosystem, cleaning up carcasses and controlling disease, but many people consider the birds to be a nuisance.
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He said that though he valued human life, he needed to tackle "beasts and vultures" that were preying on helpless people and stopping foreign investment from pouring in.
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The Harris number isn't outstanding, but considering that she struggled mightily in polling over the past few months, it's enough to keep the vultures away from her doors.
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The documentary uses long, lingering shots of Knox's anguished face to shore up its own claims to moral superiority over those earlier journalists who they characterize as vultures.
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So perhaps when Europe's vultures begin their inevitable circling around the Midlands ahead of the summer transfer window, the man in their sights should not be Jamie Vardy.
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Diclofenac, cow aspirin, given to cattle as a muscle relaxant, to ease pain and increase the production of milk, works—worked—like nerve gas on white-backed vultures.
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Allison Bennington, partner of the fund, said ValueAct is aware that activist funds have long been viewed as "vultures" in Japan but its approach will be more constructive.
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Mwampembwa's black and white sketches, published under the pen name Gado, have won a following around Africa for depicting politicians as greedy and corrupt hyenas, vultures and pigs.
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"The vultures and hyenas always share their carcass meal," says Bobby with a pursed grin, but he'll be damned if this fop will feast off his diminished status.
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As the story goes, he and his girlfriend of nine years broke up after touring 1999's Midnite Vultures, and he wrote a bunch of songs as therapy.
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MNG found itself embroiled in a dispute last year with employees at the Denver Post, whose editorial board wrote a blistering piece calling out the "vultures" at Alden.
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I have an image of Dacus slumped on the trail, febrile and panting, handkerchief covering his face, madly gulping from his water bottle while turkey vultures circled overhead.
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They are not more beautiful than pelicans flying in formation, or great blue herons gliding over the lake, or vultures riding an air current high in the sky.
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"Vultures are sentinels to poached animals, so they're directly being targeted," said Kerri Wolter, the founder and manager of VulPro, a nonprofit conservation group based in South Africa.
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Arjun Amar, an ornithologist at the University of Cape Town, said that vultures were facing a crisis in Africa, with many species declining precipitously over the last decade.
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Other attractions include presentations of live birds associated with Halloween, like owls, ravens and vultures, and a costume parade with stilt walkers from Alice Farley Dance Theater, above.
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New, public revelations about Trump's business and personal relationships before he became President would be almost certain to set the political vultures swirling around the White House again.
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We can't afford to keep losing upward of 20 million bears, coyotes, raptors and carrion eaters like vultures and ravens for no reason but longstanding habit among hunters.
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Bright red firefinches fluttered by so fast I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me and fleets of hooded vultures circled high above something dead, miles away.
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Though turkey vultures appear uniformly dark at a distance, their wings are two-toned: a dark front half, followed by the silvery gray undersides of their secondary feathers.
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One Democrat, who declined to be identified, described Bloomberg as "one of the biggest vultures" among the 2020 contenders — but then acknowledged the candidate's strength in the field.
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He says vultures are particularly drawn to communications towers, like the one in Kingsville, which they can readily land on and where they can perch in relative safety.
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The two male vultures, who have reportedly been a couple for years, alternated sitting on the egg until it hatched, and are now caring for the chick together.
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EVERY odd-numbered year, more than half a million culture-vultures descend on Venice to visit the Art Biennale, the art show on which all other biennales are based.
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Mr Díaz, a Democrat, expresses fears of an indebted, depopulated island falling prey to "vultures" from Wall Street and the world of high finance, bent on privatising its assets.
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One benefit, however, is that they are enjoying observing a flood of wildlife that avoided their land when so many dogs were around — vultures, foxes, deer and other animals.
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It is an undulating sheet of wavy grass and thorn trees covering hundreds of square miles, home to lions, leopards, cheetahs, rhinos, zebras, elephants, gazelles, vultures, crocodiles and hippos.
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Denver was officially an intriguing team with a budding superstar, and the 218 sparked by Bzdelik had the same coaches who weren't interested 282 months before circling like vultures.
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Tomorrow marks 21 years since the death of the Notorious B.I.G., which means that the corporate vultures who profit off the tragic deaths of young celebrities are circling again.
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" Along the high passes of the Rhodope Mountains, things are so treacherous that "you would biodegrade at the bottom of the gorge and vultures would pick your bones clean.
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"The impeachment vultures are circling, and he's worried because he knows there's a lot of meat left on that bone and it's getting gamey," said Colbert in his monologue.
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Read more:Striking photos of eggs that show how different birds build their homes40 hysterical finalists in this year's Comedy Wildlife Photo AwardsA group of vultures are called a venue.
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When she castigates Trump for making money from his dubious "university" that "teaches" its "students" to prey like vultures against citizens whose homes were foreclosed, she speaks the truth.
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Members of the conservation group Bicho D'Água found the whale after following vultures that were circling a mangrove on the island in the Amazon, Marajó Island, the group said.
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Activist investing in Japan is on the rise, a gradual but marked change for a country long hostile to "foreign vultures" thought to be solely motivated by short-term profit.
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This suggests that the ancestors of virtually all birds seen today—from hummingbirds and woodpeckers through to vultures and ostriches—had emerged within four million years of the asteroid strike.
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LIMA (Reuters) - In a bid to eradicate illegal rubbish dumping around Lima, Peruvian authorities are outfitting vultures with GPS tracking devices and GoPro cameras to monitor the city from above.
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"They don't realize that vultures play a very important role in nature, especially in Lima as they're helping a lot to control a large quantity of the rubbish we're dumping."
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It was time to go find a way home (the taxis were swirling around the club like vultures) and wonder whether 2016 would bring anything half as entertaining as that.
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He has called the Ferguson demonstrators "vultures on a roadside carcass" and once claimed that the Islamic State and Black Lives Matter activists were forming an alliance to destroy America.
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The net system seemed as though it would be a particularly costly way to deal with the vultures, said Russell Adams, the owner of a company called Bird Deterrent Technologies.
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But, he is hoping his exciting style, one which has garnered those aforementioned three Fight of the Night awards, and a win on Friday will stave off the UFC vultures circling.
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The inmates who collect chew this way are known as "Vultures," and usually carry a toothbrush and a playing card in their pocket to help them sweep up the tobacco refuse.
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Macri's focus on reaching a deal with holdouts contrasts starkly with the hostile stance of his predecessor Cristina Fernandez, who refused to settle with the creditors she referred to as "vultures".
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Although the bondholders have often been portrayed as deep-pocketed vultures since Puerto Rico's debt crisis began, many of them are small investors, themselves trying to save for a comfortable retirement.
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All around, marshy dikes and shallow streams swarmed with naked-necked turkey vultures and meticulous long-legged waterfowl, and the vegetation seemed as likely to harbor grazing dinosaurs as rocket scientists.
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Sheila has deep concerns that vultures are looking for opportunities to profit off Prince's death -- so she's offered her support to his family and Paisley Park reps ... according to Sheila's rep.
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After one fiery rant in which Dzodan described a cadre of such journalists as "vultures" and "media whores," Dzodan herself was criticized by white journalists who claimed she was being misogynistic.
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The case has dragged on for years while Fernandez refused to negotiate with funds she dismissed as "vultures," hamstringing Argentina's finances by keeping it locked out of the global bond market.
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We got the comedian Wednesday at LAX, where he reflected on Kevin's sex tape extortion scandal ... saying he -- like other rich, famous men -- has to keep an eye out for vultures.
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Such a meeting would have been unheard of in the past, market players say, in a country where offshore activists were seen as "foreign vultures" seeking to pillage precious corporate savings.
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Despite a drop in ratings and the constant shadow of vultures circling overhead, evening news shows still draw a combined 27 million viewers each night — a much bigger number than cable.
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For example, in 2012, Mwangi and a team of graffiti artists targeted Kenya's political elite by likening their nation's leaders to vultures in a bid to highlight corruption in the country.
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Il loro nuovo EP, intitolato GoodBadTaste, uscirà il 16 aprile, prodotto dal multi-strumentista del deserto Alain Johannes, che ha lacotato con Queens of the Stone Age e Them Crooked Vultures.
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Children can stroll through the Extinct Animal Graveyard, which has headstones for vanished species like the dodo and the Steller's sea cow, and encounter owls and vultures in a bird presentation.
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Last year, employees at the Denver Post gained national support when they rose up against what their editorial board termed the "vultures" of the paper's hedge fund owner, Alden Global Capital.
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To the north, eight white stupas and a wall mark a distant sky burial site, where human corpses are cut up in a funeral ritual and vultures feast on the remains.
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But Trump was willing to throw away all this progress and abandon Ukraine to the Russian vultures who circle its perimeter, just to score a few points against his political rivals.
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I went behind the bus to urinate, and as I did so I looked up and counted five vultures idling overhead, like predator drones in the inverted abyss of the sky.
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The Associated Press reported that two male griffon vultures who have been in a relationship for quite some time successfully hatched an abandoned egg at the zoo and are now fathers.
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Fernandez call the holdout hedge funds "vultures" because they were effectively holding a sovereign government hostage by not participating in the earlier debt restructurings agreed to by 93 percent of other creditors.
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Since vultures are known to go after the dead, could this mean the Man in Black, now confirmed to be an older version of William (Jimmi Simpson), isn't long for this world?
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Professionals in the industry, motivated by their rate of return and personal wealth accumulation, are commonly derided as vultures, barbarians at the gate, tax-sheltered, yacht-not-big-enough, plaid-clad mavericks.
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Catherine Bearder, a member of the European Parliament, has been petitioning for the European Union to save the world's vultures and eagles; the UN, too, has been discussing what action to take.
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It will be deployed in the next month or two by the International Centre for Birds of Prey, which already has some vultures successfully sitting on their connected eggs in early tests.
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While Vida's bar has been open for decades, it now lies in a prime spot for bougie development, and the vultures don't wait for her wake to be over to start circling.
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And between 2500 million and 20 million animals, including eagles, hawks, bears, vultures, ravens and coyotes, die each year not from being hunted, but from lead poisoning, according to the Humane Society.
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Many animals — including leopards, civets and smaller cats, crocodiles, mongoose, palm-nut vultures and even duikers, a kind of antelope — will dismember a carcass, carry off pieces and pick the bones clean.
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Federal officials are working to address a committee of vultures that has taken over a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) radio tower in Texas, creating what officials say is a safety hazard.
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While the zoo stated it's not unusual for birds or other animals to enter into same-sex relationships, it's admittedly the first time they've seen two male vultures hatch an egg together.
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It's time to look out for the collective well being of all Puerto Ricans, and maintain constant vigilance in the face of the inevitable fact that vultures may come dressed as angels.
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Since 20173, one database has recorded 1,172 instances when birds — meadowlarks, geese, sandpipers, pelicans and turkey vultures, among others — damaged sensors of various kinds, with 122 strikes on angle-of-attack vanes.
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Everyone from culture vultures (see: Khloé Kardashian) to keyboard cowboys (everyone with a data plan) has colonized the expression, ignoring its Black roots, rather than deferring to Black people about its usage.
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PACARAIMA, Brazil (Reuters) - Surrounded by vultures perched on trees awaiting their turn, Venezuelan migrants scrape out a living scavenging for metal, plastic, cardboard and food in a Brazilian border town's rubbish dump.
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The calf was found on Friday on the tropical forest floor of Marajó Island, which sits at the mouth of the Amazon river, after reports that vultures were scavenging on the carcass.
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While diehard fans stood outside of MAC's brick-and-mortars eagerly awaiting a glimpse of the new collection, eBay vultures took it upon themselves to sell the range online at a steep price.
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The company handling Beyonce and Jay-Z's tour merch got a court order halting vultures gunning to sell fake B&J gear at an upcoming Boston-area concert ... according to new legal docs.
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Only the so-called vultures of capitalism consider a housing crisis and a recession mere "business" and few of them would admit hoping for such an event so that they could take advantage.
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A katana-wielding "croctopus" overtook an airplane's controls, a flock of giant vultures dive-bombed New York City, and a blood sample from a rampaging hybrid rhino-mammoth grew into an unidentified fetus.
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Second, India's community of Parsees, who do not cremate nor bury their dead, but rather lay them out on towers known as dokhmas for vultures to eat, found that this tradition was imperilled.
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But diclofenac remains widely available across Africa, and loopholes in European law mean it is approved for commercial sale in five European countries, including Spain and Italy, where 90% of European vultures live.
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"The irony is, in Miami Beach and South Florida, the way to deal with rising sea levels is to build more condos," says Peter Zalewski, who tracks development through his site Condo Vultures.
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It looks like the Jolie-Pitt brood is turning out to be a bunch of culture vultures, but with a mom that's a world traveler and a U.N. ambassador, that's certainly not surprising.
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" There's tons of those tongue-in-cheek lyrics on Midnite Vultures, thrown in as frequent treats: "Jockin' my Mercedes / Probably have my baby / Shop at Old Navy / He wish he was a lady.
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In Street Fighting Men's Road Vultures comix, we don't get the rape fantasies that populate Crumb's work, for instance, but each female's exaggerated anatomy is shoehorned into ill-fitting attire and wholly objectified.
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Officials also counted 17 white-headed vultures, a species that has "undergone catastrophic declines," with estimated population losses of 96 percent within three generations, according to the London-based Edge of Existence program.
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A political cartoon from the late 2030s shows a flock of vultures labeled "FREELOADERS AND FAMINE REFUGEES" perched, beaks agape, atop the Chrysler Building's dome, the waters around them filled with bobbing skulls.
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Macri's predecessor Cristina Fernandez refused to talk with the holdout creditors, who she and her allies characterize as vultures out for astronomical returns on bonds they bought at steep discounts after 2002 crisis.
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"My plan will rein in private equity vultures and force them to make investments that help companies and protect workers rather than stripping them down for parts," Warren added in her statement to Vox.
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A Facebook page linked to Matthews, who describes himself as a singer and songwriter for a band called the "Vodka Vultures," tells us little more about his specific inclinations, either politically or musically speaking.
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A radio tower for the US Customs and Border Protection near the US-Mexico border has been plagued by vultures that roost there and drop feces, vomit, and even prey on the buildings below.
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Furthermore, a CBP spokesperson told Quartz that workers have anecdotes of the vultures dropping prey from as high as 300 feet above, creating a "terrifying and dangerous" work environment for the past six years.
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Though we should all be truly grateful for the free sanitation services offered by turkey vultures and their ilk, the birds possess one or two truly unappealing behaviors that transcend their simple bald heads.
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Approximately 300 vultures have taken to resting on CBP radio towers in Kingsville, Texas, perching on the support structures of the masts and "generally creating a safety hazard," according to a spokesperson for CBP.
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There was concern the warfarin-based toxin could hurt vultures, coyotes and other wildlife so the focus has since shifted to the sodium nitrite-laced toxic bait, which also has been used in Australia.
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"The poisoning was believed to have been caused by lacing of three poached elephant carcasses with a poisonous chemical which (leads) to significant mortality in vultures and eagles," the government statement on social media said.
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Generations of pickers have brought their children to work in the dusty dump, beneath a scorching sun and hovering vultures, plagued by swarms of flies and the pungent stench of putrid food and methane gas.
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At the top of one of the canvases a cluster of thick, arched forms, dark against a blue-and-gray background, summons associations with predatory birds, vultures awaiting their carrion once the battle has ended.
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Ever since the sun-splashed tones of their first two LPs, 2004's Out of the Shadow and 2005's Descended Like Vultures, pushed their music to playlists and festivals, they've been searching for something.
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Cyrus Hoda, the brother of victim Sarah Hoda, said Almena and Harris were "culture vultures" trying to become San Francisco Bay Area arts players by luring people to a dangerous place to live and party.
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For the makers of anniversary greeting cards, and for anyone else seeking a precedent in nature for the great human experiment in monogamy, only a handful of mascots remain: black vultures, owl monkeys, California mice.
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"Spare us the indignation of the vultures of the main parties who let the wolves in to carry out this carnage," declared Eric Domard, a senior adviser to the National Front leader Marine Le Pen.
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Up to two million broad-winged hawks and one million Swainson's hawks come through every fall, not to mention one and a half million turkey vultures, all from North America on their way down south.
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Ms. Geddes, who was until last year the president of the Music Club of Kingsville, which has a building across the street from the tower, said the vultures did not cause problems for passers-by.
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With its palm-fringed beaches, Buddhist culture and racy nightlife, Thailand has been the poster child for Asian tourism for decades, attracting a range of visitors from backpackers and adventure-seekers, to families and culture vultures.
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"A lot of people approach these legacies as vultures winging around this decomposing body looking for little islands of still-pink flesh they can consume," he recently said matter-of-factly from his West Hollywood, Calif.
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Chinese tourists were also visiting, many drawn by the chance to see a sky burial, an outdoor Tibetan funeral ritual in which a man cuts up a body so that vultures can feast on the remains.
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Chino says he and the rest of the crossers, which included a Guatemalan migrant, resorted to eating wild plants to stay alive and that literal coyotes were following them, hovering like vultures waiting for them die.
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CAPE TOWN — More than 23 endangered vultures have been killed in northern Botswana after ingesting poison left by elephant poachers, the government said on Thursday, underscoring the broader ecological fallout from Africa's illegal trade in ivory.
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Around 300 vultures have taken over the tower in the past six years, Quartz reports, and have coated the structure with "droppings mixed with urine," as well as corrosive vomit that eats away at the metal.
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CBP told Quartz that it&aposs working with the Fish and Wildlife Agency, the USDA, environmental experts, and the Texas State Historical Preservation Officer to find a solution that doesn&apost harm any of the vultures.
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White musicians such as rapper Iggy Azalea and Miley Cyrus, who tried her hand at hip-hop as she rose to fame and then openly distanced herself from it, have often been cast as culture vultures.
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Companies offer a variety of products to keep vultures away, including metal spikes, vulture "effigies" resembling dead birds that could discourage others from roosting, and devices that give the birds an electric shock when they land.
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After having lived through the "worst" and gotten used to misery, the people of Puerto Rico are about to experience the sequel to disaster — vultures will arrive to feast on the opportunities presented by recovery efforts.
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"If the story had involved vultures, or birds of prey, I might not have wanted it," Hitchcock said of adapting "The Birds," in which flocks of crows and sparrows kill off inhabitants of a small town.
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But even with weekly grosses exceeding a million dollars, "China Doll," which is directed by Pam MacKinnon (a thankless task), soon found itself being circled by theater vultures for whom the scent of disaster is an aphrodisiac.
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The thirst for industry elitism and superficial accolades had quickly turned a lot of individuals I knew into vultures who would only hang out with me to appear diverse, portraying the role of the ally for visual purposes.
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I don't want my sister and my cousin Mimi, who is hot, who looks like Beyoncé, to have any more pressure than she already has going to the club with a bunch of hawks and vultures swarming around.
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Green sea turtles don't do well when the ocean water drops below 50 degrees Fahrenheit: the reptiles stop moving, float to the surface, and eventually wash up ashore — where vultures and raccoons feast on them before they've died.
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The "both sides are bad" approach is meant to create an impossible situation for protagonist Myfanwy Thomas (Emma Greenwell), who wakes up surrounded by dead Vultures with no memory of who she is or what happened to her.
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In Motherboard's latest episode of Symbiotic, a video series focused on human relationships with nonhuman life forms, our video team travelled to Johannesburg, South Africa and learned about the sacred relationship some people have to critically-endangered vultures.
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Not only are some species of African vultures in danger of extinction, Wolter says, but an entire South African ecosystem is in danger of collapse, fueled by poachers whose animals oftentimes end up in the hands of sangomas.
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I fell in love with Transworld, I discovered skateboarding through Transworld, so there was this romantic side of it that I tried to keep away from the uglier side of it being owned by all these corporate vultures.
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On Wednesday's episode, the hosts watched a clip of a cheetah and her cub protecting their antelope feast from a pack of hungry vultures—a scene that, to Desus and Mero, could have come straight from the Bronx.
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In Africa, poachers use the drug deliberately to target vultures, who can reveal their whereabouts: authorities often use the presence of the birds circling in the sky as an indicator that illegally killed big game carcasses are nearby.
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We should be able to sell our opinions, our thoughts, and even our DNA to the highest bidder and once the rapacious Web 2.0 vultures are all shooed away, we will find ourselves in an interesting new world.
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LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvians marched in the streets across the Andean country on Thursday, many carrying effigies of rats or vultures, to demand anti-corruption reforms to clean up the country's institutions as the head of the judiciary resigned.
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He can rattle off sly observations like "I don't do the music distribution ain't important when your fans come pack out all your shows" with a conviction that assures you he's fended off a few music industry vultures.
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It's a flattering outfit, and I like that it's based on that photo shoot of Debbie Harry in the Vultures shirt, but I see it as a signal that we're returning to a more barbaric and less feminist culture.
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"We're not greedy," he added as he sought to separate his clients from the holdouts that have been at times called vultures for their reputation of buying bonds up for pennies on the dollar and then seeking full repayment.
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"If you EVER send another slimy reporter to my home address after I refused you an interview, I can promise you that those vultures you hire as your reporters will be getting home visits of their own," she tweeted.
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Tons of other celebs lent their voices to animal characters in the vid -- Justin Bieber is a baboon, Ariana Grande a zebra, Halsey a lion cub, Adam Levine a group of vultures, Wiz Khalifa a skunk, and so on.
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Over the course of 47 days, since two young Taiwanese trekkers wandered off the trail in a snowstorm, the searchers had tried almost everything: aerial surveys by helicopter, bushwhacking through deep forest, trying to follow the movements of vultures.
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As reporters covered the fire at the apartment block last week, some residents turned on Jon Snow of Channel Four News, the most senior of Britain's news presenters, and accused journalists of being vultures attracted to death and tragedy.
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Mr Griesa agreed to remove the bar on two conditions: that Argentina repeal laws barring payments to the holdouts, whom the previous government had dismissed as "vultures", and that it pay those of them who agreed to a deal promptly.
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Not all the din of their homecoming fills the silence left by the sparrows that have gone missing, and the old white-backed vultures, custodians of the dead for more than a hundred million years, that have been wiped out.
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She writes that she's become enamored of Parsi and Tibetan Buddhist "sky burials," in which the remains of the dead are set out to be devoured by vultures, although she probably won't get to have one when the time comes.
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Vishal is consumed by stress about his two-year engagement and difficult future mother-in-law, and the entire group corners Brian and Monica like vultures to ask why they aren't dating when the hive mind has decided they should be.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Two prominent signs hang in the street-facing window of Hunter East Harlem Gallery: "REALTORS = VULTURES," in white-stenciled letters on a black background, and, below, "Open/ MASSAGE," in neon green, red, and blue.
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The video went viral, earning 23 million views as culture vultures relished in Culkin's rare embrace of the character which defined his childhood, led anonymous internet people to make hoaxes about his death, and caused other distasteful byproducts of childhood celebrity.
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Analysis: Netflix is king -- but the vultures are circling The streaming service's decision to hang onto "13 Reasons Why" is indicative of the growing pains and competitive pressures with which it is grappling, and why there could be trouble ahead.
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Vultures regurgitate a corrosive vomit as a defense mechanism that can kill bacteria on their legs but also eat away at the metal radio tower, making it unsafe for maintenance workers to climb it and reducing the tower&aposs lifespan.
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And if I had been run over by a taxi (or a vengeful Queens lawyer) and killed, the same vultures would be free to feed on my estate — because I was just like one of the unfortunates we had written about.
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The emergence of vultures in China, spurred by a record number of delinquencies in 2018, could help improve liquidity in a corporate bond market that has traditionally been dominated by low-risk investors such as mutual funds, brokers and insurers.
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And while these are not necessarily mutually exclusive actions, Puerto Rico needs to be careful not to forgo its future and fall prey to the vultures simply out of a desire to get back on its feet as fast as possible.
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Would you have chosen to do this work — that you feel compelled to say, over and over, is the most valuable work of your life — if your architecture professor hadn't told you that there were "vultures" in your department who were targeting you?
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Gunnlaugsson, who took office after Iceland's 2008 financial crisis, vowed to defend the country from foreign creditors, who he described as "vultures," but he did not disclose the fact that he had $4 million in bonds tied up in an offshore shell company.
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Since the riots, Mwangi helped organize a graffiti campaign depicting politicians as vultures, marched into clouds of teargas alongside primary school children protesting against illegal construction on their playground, and burned coffins outside parliament to protest against retired politicians getting taxpayer-funded funerals.
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The 21st-century city became punitive, extraditing, and sometimes carceral toward the poor, nonwhite, and queer—and, now, to the middle class, like citizens with independent businesses of interest to real-estate vultures, or those living in subsidized residences, or in black areas.
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As cattle turned into better dairy machines, as the city ate more ice cream, butterscotch-crunch, nutty-buddy and chocolate-chip, as it drank more mango milkshake, vultures' necks began to droop as though they were tired and simply couldn't stay awake.
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" After he was released from prison in 2014 and ordered to complete his term under home confinement, he gave an interview to Martin Preib, now a spokesman for the police union, in which he described lawyers for the pardoned inmates as "vultures.
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In "Vulture Party" (2017), an assembly made of seven separate ceramic pieces, there are three vultures waiting to feast on the spotted spiders and/or the frog (your choice) gathered in front of them, presumably including the bug caught on the frog's tongue.
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Some 300 vomiting, defecating vultures have made a United States Customs and Border Protection radio tower in South Texas their home, coating the tower and buildings beneath it with potentially hazardous excrement as besieged border officials try to stem the deteriorating situation.
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Amid circular periodical stands displaying paperbacks like "Vultures of Paradise Valley" and $750 copies of "The Book of Common Prayer" in glass cases, guests in crochet dresses and with large shoulder tattoos of eggplants sipped wine from plastic cups and beer from bottles.
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Image: World Wildlife FundThe animals being lost range from elephants to frogs to tuna to vultures; a diverse cadre of species and habitats that highlights the myriad ways in which a 7.3 billion-strong human population is stretching spaceship Earth beyond its safe operating limits.
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His dollars, as well as his drive, also saved the wetlands at Coto Doñana in Andalucia, home to imperial eagles; the Banc d'Arguin in Mauritania, the stopover point for millions of migrating waders; the Faia Brava in Portugal, haunt of griffon vultures; and many others.
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If you're in a market full of vultures and they are not going to pay you what you're worth, it's nice to be able to say, "fine, thank you," and play a show in the town anyways, to roughly the same amount of people.
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But in "The Largesse of the Sea Maiden," Denis Johnson tries to comfort us about his impending absence, and to use his stunning gift for revelation — truly his singular skill — to brighten the interiors of tragedy and help us wave off the vultures hovering above.
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When Brahms travelled to Wiesbaden, on the Rhine, in 1883, to compose his Symphony No. 3 in F Major—which Botstein will conduct at the Met—his mind was full not of vultures or gloves but of memories of his late mentor Robert Schumann.
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The Bronx Zoo, which has fearsome residents including grizzly bears and Komodo dragons, offers a meet-and-greet with birds like owls, vultures and ravens, as well as opportunities to go on its Dinosaur Safari, a ride through an area filled with 40 life-size prehistoric creatures.
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The objects, glimpsed among leaves and vines, and carpeted with moss, took shape in the forest twilight: the jaguar head mentioned above, great stone jars carved with vultures, snakes and monkeys, objects that looked like thrones or tables, many with carvings along the rims and legs.
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A shake-up already saw the departure of vice chair Rob Moore (a figure Redstone had to stop from selling part of the studio to Chinese interests), and the vultures are still circling over Paramount chair and CEO Brad Grey, who has been in charge since 2006.
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The animation is pretty impressive ... Ariana Grande is a zebra, Halsey a lion cub, Wiz Khalifa a skunk, Snoop Dogg a weed plant, Adam Levine a group of vultures, Shawn Mendes a rhino and Ed Sheeran lends his voice to a Koala ... just to name a few.
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The first depicts Bruskina, a Russian Jew who was hanged for being a partisan during World War II, surrounded by vultures, which were symbols of femininity, maternal strength, and power in Egyptian mythology; this mirrors multiple perspectives on female identity that mine personal and ancient mythology in the show.
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Vultures, parasites, octopuses — these are folks who almost certainly won popularity contests in high school and now seem to be shooting for most unpopular person to be compared to a crustacean in the Finance section of the WSJ (and there is some damn strong competition in those pages).
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A COUPLE of hours drive south of Arequipa, Peru's second city, the Pan-American highway drops down from the high desert of the La Joya plain and threads its way through tight defiles patrolled by turkey vultures before reaching the green braid of the valley of the river Tambo.
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"The same Wall Street firms that tanked the dream of homeownership for millions of American families are now some of the country's biggest landlords — and we can't keep letting these vultures trample on the rights of hard-working families," Warren tells CNBC Make It in a written statement.
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One is a campaign of bread and circuses — tweets, rallies, bombast about random issues of the moment, all meant to distract and excite — and the other is the constant assemblage of a cabinet full of fat cats and "mad dog" generals, a virtual aviary of vultures and hawks.
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In September 2018, a different same-sex penguin couple "kidnapped" a chick from another pair of birds at Denmark's Odense Zoo and raised the baby as their own, while two male griffon vultures, together since 2010, successfully hatched an abandoned egg together at the Artis Amsterdam Royal Zoo in June 2017.
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DIDIER JACOBSVice-presidentCoalition for a World Security CommunityRockville, Maryland A teacher of mine once noted about the Elgin Marbles that the story of their acquisition and the controversy that followed is now part of their history, making them more famous than they might have been otherwise ("Culture vultures", March 30th).
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"Once you resist we are going to let you be thrown out through the vote of no confidence because you disrespect the organization and you disobey it, therefore we are going to let you be devoured by the vultures," Mantashe said in a message to Zuma, according to the Independent.
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The usual gang of vultures — Walmart, eBay, Best Buy, Kohls, and a bunch of other retailers who probably think they merit mention in this column — seem to have decided that Prime Day shouldn't simply be celebrated by browsing Amazon all day in your cubicle and hoping the boss won't notice.
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About 73,000 hectares of the valley were designated a wildlife reserve in 1999, and in 2014 it was nominated as a Unesco World Heritage sanctuary for supporting a "diversity of globally threatened wildlife," including the white-rumped and slender-billed vultures, and at least three endemic fish species and one turtle.
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Quartz reports that CBP filed a request for information that includes details about the problems the vultures have created at the radio tower, which is now entirely coated in "droppings mixed with urine" that have also fallen on the ground and surrounding buildings below, where people work and equipment is kept.
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Illustrating the bitter nature of the takeover battle, it featured on the front page of Britain's Daily Mail newspaper on Monday: "Don't let Vultures destroy a British colossus", it said, noting some shareholders did not have a long-term interest in the company that helped make Spitfire fighter aircraft in World War Two.
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Viewers donned an Oculus Rift to see their exact surroundings, tourists in front of the Brandenburger Tor and all, only for the the ground to fall out from underneath them, and the tourists to become ominous-looking zombified forms, flying around the sky like vultures before aligning in soldier-like rows around the viewer.
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In 2015 and 2016, I visited a prison for pre-trial detainees, the Instituto Penal Antȏnio Trindade (IPAT), one of three private facilities on a road north of the city limits, past the newly renovated international airport, past the golf resort, past the landfill where vultures stir at the commotion of passing logging trucks.
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The outpouring of appeals, outlined by Ms. Doe's lawyers in legal papers, underscored the point they tried to make on Tuesday in a courtroom in Nashua — that sudden wealth exposes an unsuspecting citizen to vultures, swindlers and other parasites who harass the winner in an attempt to leech off some of the money for themselves.
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One of the problems when you have something like AT&T buying a Warner Media and they're entering a market, you know, me, you, everybody that's looking on, we're sort of like on a Nat Geo show where like the vultures are eating the carcass and we don't exactly know what they're going to do.
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None of this was lost on Cersei, who berated her brother for making it easier for "the vultures" to attack the Lannister family and leaving her children vulnerable to a devastatingly harsh world that ultimately killed them when he confronted her about joining forces with Dany to fight the Night King and his Army of the Dead.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE has yet to name his choice to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, but already the vultures are circling.
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In Mumbai, nonbelievers are denied admission to sacred Parsi sites, including the fortresslike Atash Behrams, holiest of the fire temples, in the seaside Marine Lines district, and the great circular Towers of Silence in Malabar Hill, the city's poshest neighborhood, where the Parsis have historically left their dead to be stripped by vultures, an act of purification.
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In her autobiography, "The Greatest Good," published this year, Dr. Coady wrote that Mr. Richardson showed her a cable, written by an officer of the United States Agency for International Development, that concluded that there was no starvation in Biafra because there were no bodies in the streets or vultures in the air and the children were fat.
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"I Can See It Clear" wraps lyrics like "Been watching the vultures on the roadside / To see how they do it," around bled-out reverb and wandering melodies, disciplined by the drumming of producer Norm Block (Mark Lanagan, Warpaint's Jennylee) and a particularly slinky palm-muted guitar courtesy Jen Turner (Here We Go Magic, Exclamation Pony).
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