Word: dwarfed
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...people get that once-in-a-lifetime chance to study the sex life of the Siberian dwarf hamster; fewer still would deem it a privilege to pay a bundle for the opportunity. Yet that was the choice of Laura Farnsworth, an IBM marketing representative from Dallas, who shelled out $2,400 plus air fare last summer to spend three weeks trudging from dusk till dawn in the harsh steppes of Soviet Asia. Supervised by biologist Katherine Wynne-Edwards, Farnsworth, along with other similarly hardy amateurs, not only saw a remote part of the Soviet Union but also had the satisfaction...
...Bernhard Meier, a quest through Madagascar's leech-infested rain forests ended with blood poisoning, malaria, an injured knee -- and glorious success. A primatologist at Ruhr University in Bochum, West Germany, Meier had been tracking the hairy-eared dwarf lemur, the world's second smallest primate, which scientists had never seen alive. Last week he revealed that he had captured and photographed one of the mouse-size creatures...
...from the White House is that Bush is irritated about being handed such an item of conspicuous consumption while he skimps on funds for Eastern Europe, education and the drug war. The behemoth jet towers six stories and may have crossed the line of common political sense. It will dwarf an airport rally in Omaha, and does not exactly fit the Jeffersonian image of a citizen Executive going modestly among his people. The designers had an inkling of something being out of proportion and put an exit door in the plane's belly so a President would not look like...