Word: habitat
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Eyeing his six foot, slamdance hardened frame, I modified my greeting. "So how come you've been living in our suite?" Swarming beer cans, skateboard parts, mangled hardcore tapes and ever-increasing mossy foliage were all part of the natural habitat the Dinosaur had erected around himself in our floater's room...
Then one day you see an ad on TV announcing that "the wet look is back" and something inside you snaps. You realize that things have changed forever. You're an outcast. No one cares that the Yeti's habitat is being encroached upon. No one cares that the social organization of the Burmese orchid monkey exactly duplicates that of professional football referees. Curiosity is dead...
Tracing the parable of the indelible personae, so to speak, of the quote unquote natural habitat, if you will, in which he indigenously resides, one may assume, in a manner of speaking (or, more specifically, in the manner in which I am speaking, ha ha), obstinate indifference at best, and ornamental pejorativity at worst, as it were...
...environmentalists consider it part of a new chapter in Third World conservation. "Setting aside these sites as reserves is only a first step," says Curtis Freese, director of Latin American and Caribbean programs for the World Wildlife Fund, which has contributed $220,000 to the project. "We must approach habitat protection by asking the larger question: How do you work with the local small farmer and make sure his needs are met while at the same time serve the needs of conservation...
...fray. In the race for county commissioner in Lawrence, Kans., Agnes T. Frog, a frog, won 27.4% of the votes in a valiant effort to unseat In- cumbent Nancy Hiebert. Agnes was a write-in candidate sponsored by opponents of a proposed highway that, they contend, would threaten the habitat of the northern crawfish frog. Despite the loss, Agnes' spokesman, John Simmons, a herpetologist (one who studies amphibians), was practically jumping up and down at her showing: "Agnes leapt into the contest with all four feet. The frognosis was good when we took a tad poll...