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...then it was too late. The accordion proliferated like the South American killer bee, joining the family of base instruments that includes the comb and tissue paper, the bagpipe and the exhaust pipe. Today an estimated 75,000 accordionists can be observed running amuck across the U.S., competing in squeeze-offs. In self-defense, they are banded together in associations presided over by the likes of people named Big Lou. It would not surprise anyone to learn that a certain Big George laces himself into the accordion harness and knocks out a couple of choruses of Boola Boola when...
...tuna company will put a DOLPHIN SAFE logo on its cans, and may have to charge "a couple cents more" to account for higher costs, O'Reilly said. The dolphin-free promise was matched on the same day by the two other major canners, Bumble Bee Seafoods and Van Camp Seafood, which sells Chicken of the Sea brand. Environmentalists responded with glee. "It was an incredibly wise and incredibly responsible action," said Senator Joseph Biden Jr. of Delaware, who is a co-sponsor of a dolphin-protection bill. But August Felando of the American Tunaboat Association contended that the action...
...pull it taut like the drawstring of a purse. The canners said last week they will no longer accept tuna caught in the region unless it has been harvested without snaring dolphins as well. Their decision is likely to make good business sense. Said Daniel Sullivan, president of Bumble Bee: "Canned tuna is good for you, and we want to continue to sell as much...
...biochemist added that his research, combined with an Army report in which Laotian refugees identified bee feces as the substance they had seen, convinced Meselson that yellow rain was not a biological weapon...
...Dallas Times Herald. "The roll call of all-American icons falling into foreigners' hands added a new name yesterday," reported Newsday. "When the whole house is being sold off, it doesn't matter much that a cherished heirloom goes as well," sobbed the San Jose Mercury News. The Sacramento Bee carried a photo of "delighted" Japanese tourists gazing at the property now controlled by "their countrymen...