• They use a specially bred dog, informally called the Appalachian Turkey Dog, to assist.

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  • Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, geneticist at the National Institute for Medical Research, said that in reality the number of imported animals such as mice that are used in research is very small because a pair are bred when they are brought into a lab.

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  • My favorite pony was called Saddleback, a tough, locally bred pony from a hill station called Mahabaleshwar .

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But with purses at NYRA tracks set to rise in January, being a New York-bred might be a coveted designation.

    FORBES: Showcasing New York-breds

  • Unsocialized but erudite, a moralist, a theorist, a swamp-bred crank, Laroche fascinates the melancholy Orlean, who feels her life lacks a consuming passion.

    NEWYORKER: Adaptation

  • Most efforts, including the recent news of a disease-detecting rhesus monkey (bred with a glowing jellyfish gene), focus on improving the characteristics of existing organisms.

    FORBES: Charlotte's Goat

  • That is a result of increasing polarisation between the two big parties, which has led to blocked and unresponsive legislatures and so bred a yearning to circumvent them.

    ECONOMIST: Direct democracy

  • Eisenhower was basically a Dewey Republican but being a Texas-born, Kansas-bred Westerner with a religious orientation and someone who could speak to Western values (and was pretty obviously comfortable in boots), he could appeal to the Taft wing.

    FORBES: Perry and the Seven Dwarfs

  • Nevertheless, the extended period of low borrowing costs has bred a new breed of investor.

    FORBES: Rising Rates Reveal Debt Reality

  • The overall impression should be of a well-bred, elegant horse in miniature, Ms Bowles explained.

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  • In turn, New Jersey has bred a small niche market of public-relations firms that handle headline-grabbing scandals.

    WSJ: Hollywood Gets Help From New Jersey on Dealing With Crises

  • Researchers were surprised to find a captive-bred Goffin's cockatoo spontaneously making and using "tools" to reach food.

    BBC: Quiz of the week's news

  • They point to BP and Royal Dutch Shell in particular as having bred a culture of denial about the problem.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • One collector estimates the value of a Kiger mustang has dropped by two-thirds since 2000, in part because of a ranch-bred Kiger boomlet.

    FORBES: Wild Horse Trading

  • He also happens to hail from the Eastern Cape, a region that bred both of South Africa's post-apartheid presidents, Mr Mandela and Mr Mbeki.

    ECONOMIST: Face value

  • But the president elect knows Christopher as a cautious lawyer bred for quiet argumentation and persuasion, not an infighter who could go toe-to-toe with that lobby.

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  • "That's where the guys in Silicon Valley really love me, " boasts Rogers, 60, a Kentucky-bred lawyer whose accent waxes thicker and more syrupy as he gets excited.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Retiring to one of these communities (Sun City alone has bred a dozen places with the same name) has become almost a routine part of middle-class life.

    ECONOMIST: The growth of private communities

  • At the Manhattan headquarters of the IRS, visitors were greeted at the door by a well-bred Southerner, district director Charles Baugh, who did everything he could to make them feel at home.

    CNN: We Work For You!

  • The scheme will also be encouraging sheep farmers to sign up to a set of principles - including ensuring their animals are born and bred within a specified area and reared using traditional methods.

    BBC: Prince's painting to help farmers

  • To prepare for the show, exhibit curator Paul Martineau spent several months plowing through 1, 200 boxes of prints in a cold cinder-block room at the Herb Ritts Foundation in Hollywood, looking for shots with the L.A.-bred photographer's signature style: glowing California light, bold shadows, bare skin and film-noir settings.

    WSJ: Herb Ritts at the Getty: Capturing the Soul of Fashion

  • The video is dull and grainy, but it shows real-life drama: A comeuppance for David Ji, a celebrated U.S.-bred entrepreneur who built a billion-dollar business importing dirt-cheap DVD players from a booming China, where he was born, and selling them at Wal-Mart and Circuit City stores in the U.S., his adopted home for two decades.

    FORBES: Held Hostage In China

  • Endangered tree snails are being bred in a Hampshire zoo in an attempt to save them from extinction.

    BBC: Partula tree snail

  • Perhaps a strong economy has bred complacency, or perhaps the influence of the pollsters has grown even weightier.

    ECONOMIST: John Kasich, fading Jacobin

  • Two cat-like mammals from Vietnam, successfully bred at a north Cornwall zoo, are to be flown back to their native country.

    BBC: Newquay bred Owston's civets flown to Vietnam

  • So rapid a growth has inevitably bred controversy.

    ECONOMIST: Urban sprawl

  • Not only is planting corn typically more profitable, but ranchers are wary of permanently adding cows from the southern Plains to their herds since the animals are bred for a warmer climate and tend to be smaller than those typically raised in the Midwest.

    WSJ: Where's the Beef? Less of It in Texas

  • " Yet once again, the words of Agent Parker are the ultimate guide to what's really going on here, when she says that the people who flock to a serial killer reflect "the pathology of today's Internet-techno-bred minds" and "a new vacancy in our humanity.

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  • Mouchoir was a word that well-bred French people couldn't allow themselves to utter or hear in public.

    ECONOMIST: Shakespeare

  • Hatcheries were tried once, with the result that a lot of ill-bred fish got into the gene pool.

    ECONOMIST: Cities and the environment

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