Word: breedings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wildlife Service acknowledges these drawbacks but feels that its decision to try to breed captive condors offers the only hope for survival of the species. Arthur Risser, an ornithologist at the San Diego Zoo, agrees: "We can't compromise when they're so close to extinction...
Graves dismissed such work as the price he had to pay to write poetry: "Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat." Ironically, he was a livelier and in some ways more interesting writer when he catered to public tastes. Goodbye to All That still crackles with malice and the vivid absurdities of trench warfare. I, Claudius, the imaginary memoir of a Roman emperor whom historians had largely derided or ignored, manages to be both intelligent and spellbinding...
...toys are warriors. The success of Kenner's cuddly Care Bears has prompted a toymaking rush to stuffed animals. The friskiest new critters in sales are Pound Puppies, a breed of soft, sad-eyed and bewrinkled hounds packaged in kennel-shaped carrying cases. They come in 80 different patterns of brown, tan, gray and white, and are meant to be "adopted," like Cabbage Patch Kids. The youngster who gets one can send to the manufacturer, Tonka, for a dog tag and ownership papers. Minnesota-based Tonka, which is diversifying from its traditional line of sturdy toy trucks, expects to sell...
...human face appears in Wild California: Vanishing Lands, Vanishing Wildlife by A. Starker Leopold and Raymond F. Dasmann (University of California; 144 pages; $29.95). A different breed of actors, seldom seen on Rodeo Drive, populates this sumptuous bargain of a book. San Joaquin kit foxes, yellow- bellied marmots, California bighorn sheep and mountain lions patrol the high mountains and hidden valleys; bald eagles and hawks, herons and condors find their lonesome rookeries. Some of Tupper Ansel Blake's photographs--a grove of bishop pines at Point Reyes, the promontories of Santa Cruz Island fading into the mist--evoke Japanese prints...
...year-old undergraduate in business at the University of Southern California, should know the real thing when he sees it. After all, he has been transformed from a pre-natal Yuppie to true breed since he developed the hat. "I drink Perrier, drive a BMW, and don't have an American Express Card, but I'd like to," he says...