Word: burros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...neighborhood, we don't think the Postal Service is so efficient. We joke that the mail still arrives by burro. Not long ago, it took one of my letters 10 days to go half a mile. Maybe mule train would be better. CINDY BELLINGER Pecos...
...Quad is all the people who say it is the best place in the world. If Harvard had assigned these people housing in a cave in Peru, they would still be cheerful about it. "I love the time I have to think on the 6,000-mile burro ride to my 9 a.m. class," they would say. They are the same people who, after reading this article, will march right up to me at dinner in the dining hall and tell me that there's no way the Quad could be any better. These are the people that I will...
Large animals can be either killed or removed, but that sometimes causes problems of another sort: a burro-shooting program at the Grand Canyon had to be halted after a public outcry. In Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, though, a population of 15,000 or so feral goats was reduced to only 4, and in the Smokies the wild boar population has been pared. Smaller animals are much harder to fight, and plants harder still. Herbicides kill too indiscriminately, and bringing in new exotic species to control the old is demonstrably dangerous. Rangers often have to resort to chopping down...