Word: deere
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...city dwellers, wild deer are perhaps the ultimate symbol of bucolic country life. But for many who live in the country and the suburbs, the animals are little better than rats with hooves, pests that voraciously eat gardens and crops, collide with cars and play host to ticks that carry Lyme disease. From a turn-of-the-century low of 500,000, white-tailed deer in the continental U.S. have rebounded to a population of 25 million -- about as many as there were before hunting, land-clearing Europeans colonized America -- and that is just too many to coexist comfortably with...
...center in Front Royal, Virginia, and inoculating them with what amounts to an antipregnancy vaccine. Developed by Kirkpatrick and two other scientists, the technique, known as immunocontraception, involves injecting a protein extracted from the reproductive system of a pig. In making antibodies to attack the foreign pig protein, the deer's immune system also attacks the doe's own, very similar protein. The result is temporary sterility...
Immunocontraception has already been field-tested successfully with wild horses on Assateague Island, off Maryland. If this and other planned tests work equally well, the vaccine could become the method of choice for controlling booming deer populations. It could even, in theory, be used as a one-shot, long-lasting human contraceptive as well...
...image that has stuck most stubbornly to Dan Quayle from the 1988 campaign is that of a deer caught in the headlights: a helpless thing frozen in the path of destruction. In Houston, however, Quayle labored -- with some success -- to transform himself into a snarling attack dog, on the model of such G.O.P. vice-presidential nominees as Bob Dole and Spiro Agnew. Before the largest prime-time TV audience he has addressed, Quayle abandoned his attempted oratorical gravitas and delivered a withering attack on what he has called the "liberal cultural elite," which he has targeted to help distract attention...
...face of the worst regionwide drought in decades. Along with other legendarily soaked cities like Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, B.C., Seattle has imposed water restrictions, urging citizens to take shorter showers and banning the use of lawn sprinklers. The lush, green vegetation has begun to turn brown. Mule deer does are having trouble finding enough food in the woods to produce milk for their fawns. The spring chinook salmon run on Oregon's Rogue River had the largest die-off level in 15 years, attributed in part to low water levels. The situation is worst in Oregon, whose drought...