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...over the flock. The head of Vard was a duck called Derek, who was part of a seven-member council of owls that made all the decisions about Vard. And under Derek Duck was Roso the Bear, who in turn had assistants called John the Fox and Archie the Badger...
...officials dished out severalmatching minors to calm things down as play got a little sloppy and tempers flared in the last part of the second, and the third started the same way, when Terrier Bill Cotter and Badger Tom Ulseth drew off-setting sentences...
...Carrie McCully, just 18 and a freshman this fall at Brown University, Bread Loaf was a chance to meet others like herself who "feel passionate about their writing." Then there was Dr. Theodore Badger, 77, a ruddy-faced professor emeritus at the Harvard Medical School, who began his writing career at the age of 70 with a column in Medical Dimensions magazine. Said he: "I just wanted to come and steep myself in the intellectual atmosphere...
...average of three times monthly, a Soviet Tu-16 "Badger" reconnaissance jet roars off from the world's largest military base, just outside Murmansk, and heads westward to probe Norway's air defenses. Alerted by radar, a vast ultramodern command center in the craggy mountain range of northern Norway scrambles two Norwegian Royal Air Force F-104G Starfighters. The fighters usually intercept the Badger within a few minutes; one of them hangs off the Soviet craft's tail, while the other flies just ahead of its nose. The lead Norwegian Starfighter will then waggle its wings...
Egged on by Wald and his biologist wife, Ruth Hubbard, Cambridge's Mayor Alfred Velluci used the escalating DNA furor to badger his old foe, Harvard. He convened the city council in an effort to halt DNA research at the school. Said Velluci: "Something could crawl out of the laboratory, such as a Frankenstein." At the council's request, Harvard and M.I.T. agreed to a moratorium on P-3 research while an eight-member citizens' review board studied the issue. In February, the council overrode Velluci and passed an ordinance permitting recombinant DNA work to be resumed...