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...species is defined by scientists as a group that can reproduce itself. Two species are marked as distinct if mixed members either will not mate or cannot produce fertile male and female offspring. Thus the horse and the donkey are separate species because their issue, the mule, is always sterile. In the case of the fruit flies, the Llanos strain was capable of producing fertile young with other strains in 1958, but when they were remated later, the males of the isolated group could not sire fertile sons with any females except those of their own strain...
...least 10%" for all 22 million Social Security beneficiaries. Sharing a platform with local party bigwigs (notably absent: Open-Housing Foe George P. Mahoney, Maryland's Democratic gubernatorial nominee), the President chose a curious way to scold the Republicans - by pinning on them the Democratic Party symbol. "Any donkey can kick down a barn," he said, "but it takes a skilled carpenter to build one. There's a big donkey population in this country around this time of year...
...toward humanity. The characters' relationships to one another are further explored indirectly through their connection with Balathazar himself is symbolic of patience and, the program notes tell us, of love. But more important, Bresson reveals the truths about his characters by contrasting their attitudes toward and treatment of the donkey...
Kesselring himself could hardly have prevailed against a populace so shifty that when a man quarrels with his neighbor he adds injury to insult by letting his donkey eat the neighbor's grass. In the belly-busting climax of this humoric epic, the Germans ignominiously wrest defeat from the jaws of victory, and the villagers preserve their vino for the postwar American market. Crichton tells his story with grace, pace, warmth and a wonderful free-reeling wit that skips among the vineyards like an inebriated billygoat. The book should make a dandy movie...
...sign of spring. Each year, as the snows melt in the lofty mountain passes along the border of northern Iraq, the sporadic, five-year-old guerrilla rebellion of Iraq's stubborn 1,500,000 Kurdish tribesmen flares up again-fueled by fresh weapons and ammunition lugged in by donkey caravan over the mountains from fellow Kurds in Iran...