Word: baldingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embrvos. The mothers ingested DDT which upset their calcium metabolism. That caused them to lay thin-shelled eggs that could not support their weight. Pelican eggs collapsed in the rookeries all the way from Anacapa to Mexico. The pelican, the osprev, the cormorant, the petrel; the seagull, the American Bald Eagle and the peregrine falcon: all of their eggs are collapsing, the shells are too thin. No new generations are being born...
UNITED STATES. Now threatened with extinction, to join the Eastern elk and passenger pigeon, are the American alligator, Southern bald eagle, Columbian white-tailed deer, Utah prairie dog and ivory-billed woodpecker, the largest woodpecker in the U.S. Even so, the mainland has a good record compared with Hawaii, which has destroyed more native plants and animals in the 192 years since Captain Cook's arrival than has all the rest of America in the same period. Hawaii's endangered wildlife -partly ravaged by the introduction of outside predators like mongooses and rats-includes all the fresh-water...
Woven Headaches. Another secure mane is produced by hair weaving, a process that costs between $150 and $400. Supplementary hair is woven onto a base of nylon thread and then crocheted with the client's remaining hair across the bald spot. Unfortunately, as the real hair grows the woven hair becomes loose and has to be tightened every four to six weeks at a cost of between $5 and $50 per treatment...
...other show business personalities. In a long series of operations, strips or plugs of hair-a plug contains from 15 to 20 hairs complete with roots and skin-are removed from the back or side of the head and then transplanted into a similar-sized hole cut from the bald spot. Then follows a months-long cycle of scabs, scars, falling out of the old hair, and finally the growing in of the new. The process is both physically and financially painful; a complete job may run from several hundred to several thousand dollars...
...should anyone care about the land mollusk, or even the Southern bald eagle? Because, as ecologists keep repeating, all species are interrelated in the biological pyramid. Destroying one can adversely affect many others. A prime example is Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which is being eaten away by starfish. Some scientists speculate that the ecological balance was upset when man began to remove their natural predators...