Word: buzzard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That is not the way it works, especially when so many of today's good, unknown writers can't get a first novel published. Besides, seeking sympathy from a book reviewer is like asking a buzzard to have table manners...
...began to mount. During the mid-1980s, Colborn learned, mortality rates for alligator eggs in Lake Apopka, Florida, soared to 96%, in contrast to 57% in most Florida lakes. The almost certain cause: a 1980 chemical spill that included DDT. In 1993 researchers found that terns in PCB-contaminated Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts, had reproductive-tract abnormalities including the presence of ovarian cells in male birds. Earlier studies had found similar problems with birds in California and the upper Midwest...
...heavy first number blends into the even heavier "Dirt in the Ground." Waits' reflection on death is original and, despite the depressing topic, exhilirating to listen to: "The quill from a buzzard/ The blood writes the word/ I want to know am I the sky/ Or a bird/Cause hell is boiling over/And heaven is full/We're chained to the world/And we all gotta pull/And we're all gonna be/...Just dirt in the ground...