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Father, however, is a scientist, a student of Darwin. He resolves to raise the boy to be a natural man, with the skills and wiles of an animal. As he grows (he is portrayed at an older age by John David Carson), he proves to be more unfettered by convention than Father might have liked. As his mother comments, in what may be the worst single line of dialogue so far this year, "What we've got is a lusting male." Nothing will do but that Junior must have...
Adaptation, you understand, is a natural process, or so said Darwin. It simply happens. Awareness of adjustment facilitates comfort, but introspection can destroy. So be careful. It all boils down to Survival of the Fittest. And fitness at Harvard necessitates pain--lots...
...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...