"Opponents of K12 and skeptics of public online education have spent years making wild, attention-grabbing charges about us and our business," Udell said.
Beard's "wild" hair brought her angry attention, as if she was deliberately offending people by refusing to tame it with lashings of keratin when she went on telly.
In France in the 1990's, the Garden Gnome Liberation Front, a group dedicated to "freeing" gnomes and returning them to the wild, gained attention for stealing large batches of them and leaving them in forests and other out-of-the-way places.
Then came AIG, and once again a handful of bankers became the focus of wild-eyed attention (the story threatened to derail the administration's bank-rescue plans, even though those bonuses accounted for less than 0.001% of America's annual GDP).
It sounded melodramatic and desperate, a wild call for attention.
But it's the music that commands attention: wild, grand, delirious, demonic, an uncontainable personality surging into sound.
It sparked a wild amount of attention for a programme that was largely about hormones, genetics and careful scientific trials with promising, but uncertain, results.
And to be fair, with that kind of wild competition for attention (not to mention the Rangers being pushed around by the not-so-lowly Senators), it's not difficult to perhaps see why this one kind of snuck up on all of us.
I provide a review of the measurement of flying and diving metabolic rate in the wild, paying particular attention to mass loss, doubly-labelled water, heart rate and accelerometry.
The rare, rabbit-sized marsupial, which boasts only around 600 individuals in the wild, is receiving attention from a campaign to make it Australia's Easter animal.
No longer seeing itself as responsible for reporting the truth, for getting the facts to the people, it has instead incentivized a scrum, a wild fight for attention in which anything that attracts an audience is fair game.
