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Some ten miles south, on Tinian Island, where the Enola Gay took off with the A-bomb for Hiroshima and jungle encroaches on concrete roads named Broadway, Fifth Avenue and Lexington Avenue. Jones is clearing the bush for his largest investment in Micronesia's future, the BarK ranch. He leased 7,500 acres of Government land, almost one-third of the entire island, has already built 32 miles of fence and brought in 920 head of Black Angus-Hereford cattle from New Zealand. His goal is a herd of 8,000 head, plus hogs and chickens to supply...
...started that joke about the old men sitting on the park bench? -- Yes, my general. -- Did you start the joke about the four meatballs, one of which was a microphone? -- Yes, my general. -- Did you tell the story about the dog who went to Italy so that he could bark freely? -- Yes, my general. -- And why did you do all that? Don't you know this government enjoys the support of 98 per cent of the nation? -- Excuse me, my general, I never started that joke...
...long, elm-cast shadows that once drifted across campuses and evoked dreams of Main Street, U.S.A., are fading-the victims of Dutch elm disease. Caused by a fungus and carried by bark beetles, the incurable blight was first detected in the U.S. in 1930 and has since spread inexorably across the nation, leaving unsightly stumps in its path. Although most American elms seem doomed, there is now hope that a hardy new breed of elm will rise to take their place...
...quite seriously, a dog can be afflicted with an "anxiety syndrome," a "jealousy syndrome," the "secretary syndrome," "dominance frustration," "barrier frustration," or even "psychosexual misorientation." And that's bad, because dogs burdened with those neuroses tend to destroy bedroom slippers, jump on guests, bite mailmen, wet on carpets, bark early in the morning and stop wagging their tails...
Living as a nomadic scavenger in his tribal area, the Aborigine eats lizards, goes naked, sleeps in crude lean-to "wurleys" made of bark. His society is organized into a loose federation of tribal units and practices a form of basic communism that does not recognize private property. His language, over the centuries, has become divided into more than 500 separate dialects, some of which are among the world's most complex and include as many as four genders of nouns declinable into as many as eight cases (v. six in Latin). He is also the inventor of such...