Wall Streeters fear that Mr Baker is that dangerous animal, a politician with an eye for the main chance.

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Brooks wants to show us the real unconscious, but then he draws a veil over the undercurrents of ambition, sex, and violence that make our breed of social animal so dangerous and so interesting.

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Ironically, an increase in snowfall could be among the most dangerous "warming" effects for this animal.

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Ploughing, and some fertilisers can help farmers reduce plants' uptake of the dangerous elements, and binding agents can be added to animal feed to reduce their uptake from the gut, he added.

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Caroline Barnes was appealing a ruling that the animal, Lennox, should be destroyed because it is too dangerous.

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Planned new measures to clamp down on dangerous dogs could "cause more problems than they solve", vets and animal charities have told ministers.

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Toronto Animal Services noted that the monkey species can carry a type of herpes dangerous to humans.

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"The animal symbolizes freedom, a combination of elegant femininity and the wild and dangerous, " says Pierre Rainero, Cartier's current director of image, style and heritage.

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Luckily it set off the alarm system and animal control was able to capture it, but it could have been dangerous because it likely would have attacked my mother if she had unknowingly gone downstairs during its rampage.

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But no one knows which disease will be next, what animal will be its natural host, where it will happen, or how dangerous it will be.

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