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...These outstanding individuals are being recognized for achievements that are consistent with...the promotion of liberal democracy, democratic capitalism and a vigorous defense of American institutions,” said Michael W. Grebe, president and CEO of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, in a statement...
...MISSISSIPPI and WISCONSIN DELEGATIONS: Hyatt Regency; downtown. Prime position. Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour is from Mississippi, and the chairman of the arrangements committee, Michael Grebe, is from Wisconsin. Price...
...hour period. Says Peterson: "I had the best eyes and ears in Texas with me." There are some 550 species in the state. Racing from site to site by foot, van and plane, the four were really humming. From the great crested flycatcher all the way to the least grebe, they totted up tally after tally. The black-bellied whistling duck, the Swainson's warbler, the pileated woodpecker, the Caspian tern, the chachalaca and the dickcissel were all sighted, and all, says Peterson, were "old friends either by sight or sound." In the end the total was 235, beating...
...waters off Santa Barbara may well have been exaggerated (TIME, June 13). Their findings may be confirmed later this month when a wildlife census will be made. Some ecological changes have already been detected. An aerial survey along a 30-mile stretch of beach recently counted only 200 grebe, compared with the past population of 4,000 to 7,000. Divers have discovered large patches of sunken oil that lie in gooey ribbons up to six feet thick along the edges of the reefs. Gray whales migrating from the Bering Sea to Baja California are avoiding the Santa Barbara Channel...
...grebe's problems began in the late '40s when the local mosquito abatement district sprayed thousands of pounds of DDD, a chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticide, on Clear Lake to rid the area of swarms of buzzing black gnats. The chemical, a close cousin of DDT, worked so well that developers previously put off by the gnats began building houses around the lake...