• The omnivorous creatures can live for more than 50 years, feeding on fish, insects and water plants.

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  • But they do not have the same omnivorous reach, the same devotion to an agenda, and the same sense of struggle.

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  • Consumers are still omnivorous: retail sales leapt 0.8% in February, fresh on the heels of a 1.5% rise the previous month.

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  • The coati is about the same size and shape as a raccoon and is omnivorous - eating leaves, fruit, small rodents, birds and eggs.

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  • The coati is an omnivorous animal and it was likely to be surviving on fruits, berries and leaves as well as mice and small birds.

    BBC: Missing coati returned to Belfast Zoo

  • Those were heady times for a young, omnivorous reporter: I handled everything from stakeouts to regional front-page features, writing on topics from nuclear power to heroin addiction.

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  • It weds the oral culture of his unlettered mother (the dedicatee of all his books) to an omnivorous bibliophilia encouraged by his stepfather, a hotel receptionist in Pointe-Noire on the Atlantic coast.

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  • He's no snob he devours shows like "Mad Men" and "Enlightened, " and with Rico Gagliano hosts a public-radio show called "The Dinner Party Download, " an omnivorous guide to arts and culture that broadcasts nationally.

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  • This despite the fact that proposals for assessing risk in such areas as aviation do not grow out of an omnivorous desire to "spy on citizens" but out of a concrete need to protect people from a clear threat.

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  • As a result of taking the stuff, many journalists will stay up for three or four mind-bending days at a time, churning out hundreds of blog postings, magazine articles and lyric Armenian poetry, all in an effort to feed the omnivorous demand of the 24-hour news cycle.

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  • His career in medicine (itself unexpected, since he had wandered towards maths, in the steps of his Uncle Henry, and then physics, all within the reach of his omnivorous intelligence, before ending up, at his father's stray suggestion, at Columbia University's medical school) was animated not by a goal, but by a question.

    ECONOMIST: Barry Blumberg

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