Word: bisons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bison's soccer publicity pamphlet this year, coach Lincoln Phillips, former coach and goalie for the now defunct Washington Darts pro team, was so upset by the loss that he returned to his native Trinidad and personally handpicked 12 freshmen recruits...
...Southwest of the flint weapons left behind by the Folsom man and the Sandia man provide more. No bones of these ancients have turned up, but the speared skeletons of their prey from 10,000 or more years ago convey messages. The fact that the tailbones of the giant bison were missing, for instance, suggests that the entire hides were taken, along with the meat. If so, the hunters must have had tools for skinning...
Bobby Darin's music career has gone the way of the bison, but he lives on in the hearts of some Harvard students...
Fortunately, a few men are working to undo the errors of the many. U.S. conservationists have provided sanctuaries in Texas for whooping cranes, which have thus risen from a low of 15 cranes in 1941 to nearly 80 today. Similar efforts saved the grizzly bear, the bison and African cheetah. On Grand Cayman island in the Caribbean, a new "turtle farm" is now hatching the first of thousands of eggs. This will help prevent the turtles' rapid depletion by the cosmetics industry. In the Pacific Northwest, the sockeye salmon is proliferating, thanks to artificial incubation and man-made channels...