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...while, the world outside continued to plague her: the Tasmanian state government insisted that she leave for her own safety and complained that she was trespassing on a flora and fauna reserve. But local officials backed her up, and the state finally relented...
...STUTZIN President National Committee for the Protection of Fauna and Flora Santiago, Chile
...Reno for a four-week course run each summer by the National College of the State Judiciary, seven visiting judges accepted an invitation from Instructor Ronald Fremlin to view local fauna at the New China Club. Two young women who seemed to be inviting companionship struck up a conversation. A bellicose stranger suddenly intervened. "I was with these ladies." he barked, "and I don't like your butting in!" One thing led to another as the barroom tough shoved one of the women from her stool and hit Illinois Judge Robert Dean in the stomach, not once but twice...
...Grass. Conveniences like these, however, are regarded by many inmates as a fair exchange for the shortage of real flora and fauna. "I like being able to run over and pick up a loaf of bread," says Mrs. Marcia Reese, waiting in the laundromat for a load of nappies to dry. "We enjoyed the quiet last week in the woods, but until my kids are out of diapers, this is more fun." For older kids, Campland is a mixed bag. Young Jeff Andreoli complains that he cannot play baseball or football: "There's no grass here." Karen Folts...
...Francisco's picture-postcard suburb of Sausalito boasts a rare breed of American fauna: a small band of happy commuters. The reason is blue and white, cost $700,000 and floats. It is called the M.V. Golden Gate; and in the eleven months that it has been plying the waters of San Francisco Bay between Sausalito, in Marin County, and the city's Pier One, it has turned hundreds of auto-addicted commuters into confirmed ferry fans...