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...formats are similar from one city to the next. During a two- to four-minute vignette, the child usually appears with one of the news show's anchors in some comfortable setting, often of the child's choice: a zoo, fishpond or skating rink; milking cows or taking a helicopter ride. "The key is to focus on the child and not be the center of attention yourself," explains Jack Bowen of Wednesday's Child on KOCO in Oklahoma City. "I make the child's handicaps very clear but highlight the positive features." In Washington...
Still to be settled are those charges against the sheriff for misusing the construction workers. He ordered them, it is alleged, to build a cage for turtles in his fishpond...
Other nations are not far behind. On the Chinese mainland, Fan Li's descendants have dotted the countryside with so many fishpond cooperatives that their annual production of carp and related fish (1.5 million tons) nearly equals the total U.S. catch. The Israelis, who have extensive breeding pools, learned that by injecting mullets with pituitary hormones they could cause the fish to spawn in captivity. Ordinarily the mullet -a popular tropical food fish-will spawn only in open water. Similar projects are underway on Taiwan, in India and at Hawaii's privately run Oceanic Institute, where scientists have...
Outside Phoenix, Ariz., in the shadow of Camelback Mountain, stands an ultra-modern $100,000 house made of Moenkopi sandstone that is, by the conservative estimate of its owner, 160 million years old. On the property is a fishpond with a little waterfall. The sound of the waterfall is picked up by a microphone and piped into the house; the owner likes to sleep to its music. In back of the house is a 25-ft. flagpole hooked up to a motor with a photoelectric cell. When the sun rises over the Arizona desert, its light activates the cell, which...
...feels that he is only beginning. Last week Kaiser showed off the first houses in his most ambitious project: Hawaii Kai, a projected $350 million dream city on the eastern end of Oahu Island, to be built on 6,000 acres between picturesque Maunalua Bay and Kuapa Fishpond...