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...wrote that Africa was a "country frequented by clawed creatures with striped and gilded pelts, where nettles sting like wasps and even moles are as large as water-rats . . . The sun, naked as when it was born, sucks out one's life blood, and nourishes savagery long since made dormant by the pious lives of one's ancestors. Kill! Kill! Kill! is the mandate of Africa...
...seasonal. During the rainy period, the landscape is verdant, but during the five to six months of the year that are rainless (early December to mid-May in Costa Rica), many trees lose their leaves. Unlike the temperate zone's deciduous hardwood forests, however, they do not become fully dormant. Instead, the bare trees flower and bear fruit, which nourishes a variety of mammals and insects. Centuries ago, such vegetation covered 60% of the forest regions of Latin America, India, Southeast Asia, Africa and northern Australia. On the west coast of Central America alone, 98% has been chopped down...
...friendship and partly because she does not have many suitable candidates to offer as replacements. In addition, she needs to marshal support for the campaign to ratify the new constitution. Enrile, who may emerge as the leading opposition figure and the heir to much of Ferdinand Marcos' dormant support, is opposed to ratification and reportedly plans to campaign against...
...what vicinity it occupies now, Ditka replies, "Chicago." This season's odd shadow is being cast by Doug Flutie, the 5-ft. 9-in. quarterback from Boston College, whose Heisman Trophy two years ago appeared to have been sculpted to scale. After settling his seven-figure account with the dormant U.S. Football League, Flutie signed just a few weeks ago to back up Mike Tomczak, who backs up Steve Fuller, who backs up McMahon. General Manager Jerry Vainisi describes Flutie's Chicago earnings as "less than Fuller, more than Tomczak," who lately has done most of the playing. Two weeks...
...hours after the announcement, the records were surrendered to police by a lawyer representing Andreas J. Hackner, a junior tax assessor for Revenue Canada, who was promptly suspended and may face theft charges. Hackner reportedly borrowed the files to start a business in tracking down dormant bank accounts...