Word: darwins
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...Australia, because dry areas adjoining the state hamper them from moving out to neighboring territory. But last month they turned up in two other places in Australia and promptly set off an all out toad hunt. When 18 Bufos escaped from a consignment to a biology teacher at steamy Darwin, in the Northern Territory, it was immediately clear that not all Australians regard the amphibian gourmands with the equanimity of Queenslanders, who have grown used to skidding in their cars along toad-covered roads. The cane toad, said one member of the Northern Territory Legislative Council, is "loathsome and repulsive...
...head off such a national calamity, the Wild Life Department came up with a bounty of $30 per Bufo, and the Darwin Conservation Society put up another $7.50. When angry cattle farmers, fearing that the toads would eat the dung beetles that eat disease-spreading flies, demanded that the education department pay a $1,500 reward for each toad, the federal government in Canberra countered that such an absurdly high bounty might lead to the clandestine import of more toads from Queensland. Anticipating that, the Northern Territory promised to fine all Bufo bootleggers...
...Back in Darwin, things were not going SO well. WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE announced posters distributed throughout the tropical city. As tune passes, the authorities are becoming bolder, or more desperate. Says Lake: "I'll try anything...
...every inning he worked, but he somehow managed to find the good pitch forget the lucky break when he needed it. Cleveland gave the Twins nine singles in the first five innings, but Minnesota stranded eight of those runners. The Twins got a run in the first on Bobby Darwin's base-hit, scoring Steve Braun...
Microbiologists Roy Cameron and Frank Morelli made their discovery by accident. The researchers, now at the Darwin Research Institute in Dana Point, Calif., had been working for the past three years on a project aimed at evaluating the environmental impact of deep drilling on Antarctica. As part of their work, they regularly analyzed the material brought up by the drills to determine what surface contaminants had seeped into the soil. Some experiments conducted on cores taken from layers of soil, rock and ice that had been laid down between 10,000 and 1 million years ago produced startling results. Several...