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...looked it up," Ventura says of the word. "It's someone who's intolerable [Jesse's Yogi Berraism] of any other religion but their own. I'm the opposite. I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree." The ex-wrestler growls, "Wait 'til I ever see them face to face." At 5 ft. 6 in., Bauer should hope that day doesn't come...
...gotten us in trouble in the first place. The one I'd insisted on joining for the fun of it. To see what it was like to get dropped, or burned, or smoked, by these big scary drill sergeants who up to this point had been all bark and horror stories...
With two flaps of its wings, the hawk suddenly took off and roosted in an elm. After a few minutes, I began to notice that the squirrels in nearby trees had ceased their usual pitter-patter. They pressed themselves tightly against the bark, utterly motionless, tensed against a predator they could sense but could not see. An ancient dance between predator and prey was being performed; with the exception of our little crowd, the hurrying students and tourists were oblivious to the drama...
There is nothing cute about the 2-in.-long black-and-white beetles. They pose no risk to humans, but their larvae, living just underneath the bark, deny a tree vital nutrients and essentially starve it to death. After finishing with one tree, adult beetles move on to the next, often flying hundreds of feet at a time. Getting rid of the trees is the only way of eradicating the beetle. Since August officials in Chicago have been spraying infested trees with purple and green fluorescent paint, marking them for doom. In the hardest-hit parts...
...college years at Harvard a decade earlier. He had taken a course taught by Richard Evans Schultes, a pioneer ethnobotanist who had spent years in the Amazon rain forest. During the first lecture, Professor Schultes showed a slide of what appeared to be three Indians in grass skirts and bark-cloth masks dancing under the influence of some kind of potion. "The one on the left has a Harvard degree," the professor said, pointing out how far some ethnobotanists will go to pursue their research. That was when Plotkin, now 43, decided he had found his calling...