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...Texas tycoon of fable; he scrambles his own eggs and is an amateur astronomer who orders Maclntyre to keep an eye out for unusual activity around the constellation Virgo as well as along the coveted coastline. Popping in and out of the picture are a ma rine biologist who turns out to have webbed toes, a Russian trawler officer who paddles in to play the stock market when the fish are running near a capitalist land mass, and a hotel manager who is also a shrewd accountant and a demon lover. The minister here abouts is a black African quite...
...last year. The region's spectacular wading birds, many of them rarities, are equally threatened. Wood storks, for example, have successfully nested in only three of the past 18 years. "The wetlands are sending up enough smoke signals to set off anyone's alarm system," warns Research Biologist Bill Robertson, who has been studying the Everglades for a quarter-century. Predicts Arthur Marshall, Florida's leading ecologist: "The Everglades has only 20 years of survival left...
...issues raised by the digging of the Jonglei Canal are so complex that many environmentalists caution against any predictions. Not so British Biologist Stephen Cobb, who headed one Jonglei survey team. "It won't be the disaster as first suspected," he says. "On balance, it is going to make life better for a lot of people." -ByAnastasia Toufexis. Reported byRobertC. Wurmstedt/Jonglei
...They think they own the place," said Beardsley. "They do." Employees still park in the lot, but cautiously wait in the lobby if there are moose around. Ray Kramer, a biologist for the state game service, has advised fellow Alaskans who encounter a hungry, charging moose to head for the nearest snowbank, cover up and pray...
...fooled them," Wilson quipped after last night's lecture, in which he gave an anecdotal description of the role of a biologist which, as an entymologist, he considers his prime academic pursuit...