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...earful of such concerns. The announcement later this month will be just a draft proposal, followed by 90 days of public comment at which opponents will be encouraged to speak up. Only after that will the plan be finalized. By early next year, the Yellowstone grizzly could join the bald eagle in vindicating endangered-species protection--by graduating from it. --Reported by Pat Dawson/Bozeman...
...wasn’t particularly thrilled at the loss, but Blake wasn’t distraught, either, as he embraced Agassi after the final point. Blake knew what he’d just had a hand in, and there was just no disagreeing with the bald, 35-year-old semifinalist when he said, “There are few moments on a tennis court that are that special...
...quite unconstitutional, and having further refused to admit scientific evidence (save as affidavits* in the record to instruct higher courts) by which the defense would have sought to disprove Scopes' misdemeanor through "reconciling" the Biblical with the scientific account of creation, there remained to the trial nothing but the bald testimony of two schoolboys that Scopes had "taught Evolution." Though the trial lasted a fortnight, costing over $25,000,? the schoolboys' testimony was practically all the farmer-jurors were permitted to hear in the courtroom. It alone constituted the basis for their verdict of "Guilty...
...Moeller farm on Mormon Island, Neb., lies right in the path of the central flyway, a great avian migratory route that runs from central Mexico to eastern Siberia. Through it each spring pass 560,000 sandhill cranes, 9 million ducks and geese, more than 500 bald eagles, 104 piping plovers, 110 least terns and 96 of the world's remaining population of 171 whooping cranes. Few bird watchers are lucky enough to spot the latter along their 2,500-mile flight from the Gulf Coast of Texas to Canada's Northwest Territories. They are secretive, and they travel in small...
...patellar tendon, the worst "ball of spaghetti" his doctors had ever restrung. "Occasionally he'd call me up and say, 'I didn't go to the park today,'" smiles Mickey Cobb, the trainer, "but I knew by looking at the room that he went every day." A small, bald man of 44, Cobb began life at 2 lbs. in rural Georgia, polio-ridden and without benefit of physician. He started limping at four. "I couldn't play when my friends were playing," he says, "so I carried the Band-Aids...