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...result is the wholesale death of robins, which form a large part of suburban bird populations. The robins live on earthworms (that is why they are plentiful in the suburbs, where worm-bearing lawns abound), which concentrate insecticides without being damaged themselves. When the robins eat these insecticide-full worms, they die. The slaughter may continue for several years, until the DDT in the soil has disintegrated...
...most areas, sites for second houses naturally stretch out toward the cool air. In Denver each summer weekend, the highways leading westward into the higher elevations of the Rockies are jammed with Denverites taking to the hills-the higher, the fewer. Midwesterners have no mountains, but their lakes abound, many of them created in the last 20 years as flood-control projects, which have opened up a whole new recreational world. Vacation houses are springing up around Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks, Table Rock, Taneycomo, and the new Pomme de Terre. In Kansas there is Tuttle Creek Reservoir...
Philosopher Demos was a great questioner, but good ones abound in all fields. One such is the University of Chicago's Vienna-born Friedrich Hayek, 63, professor of social and moral science, a noted traditionalist whose "radical" theories first drew national attention in a 1944 best seller, The Road to Serfdom, and later in The Constitution of Liberty (1960). Now returning to Austria to teach, Hayek was a burr under many a U.S. intellectual sad dle. Almost alone, he argued that welfare-state planning, however well intentioned, inevitably leads to expediency, coercion and loss of liberty...
Commedia dell'arte features abound in this play, and director Samuel Hirsch and costumer Phil Robb were quick to emphasize the connections. It would of course be too much to expect the players to have evolved a really consistent style of ensemble comedy in a few weeks, but the current production is more than adequate, and three of the performances are top-notch. (I do, however, miss in the updated translation the wonderful old repertory of varied expletives that pepper the text...
Today, national journalism contests abound in such numbers-roughly 200-that even newsmen require a form sheet...