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...stagnant wetlands near the Alewife MBTA station, the bird calls are deafening. Hundreds of wrens swoop through the head-high reeds in dizzy spirals and whorls.But change is coming for the 90 species of birds, from hawks to owls, that call the wetlands home. The construction of the new Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) building in Alewife will lead to the removal of some nesting places, but also, community activists hope, open up the wetlands to a much broader range of animal and plant species in one of Cambridge’s wildest spaces.In addition to the birds...
...impressive. "Wait for Jackie," someone says. Jackie Joyner, silver medalist at the Los Angeles Olympics last summer, has won the first five heptathlon events here at the U.S. Olympic Committee's National Sports Festival meet. She appears at the beginning of the javelin run-in, holds her spear head-high, level with the ground, and flows into the unmistakable prancing, straight-backed run that must have been the same when soldiers threw those weapons in the Trojan War. The javelin thuds down at 144 ft. 11 in. There is a roar. Casual fans are delighted, but the knowledgeable are disappointed...
...never really found himself until he was sent to the Braves. Pennant-hungry Milwaukee brought out the mean-spirited competitor in him, and he delighted in the sight of an opposing batter sprawling to escape his head-high fast ball. The measure of his success is the list of angry complaints that have scampered across four years of sports pages. Some of his National League opponents insisted-and still do-that he uses the outlawed spitball. "He breaks every rule in the book,'' maintains Cincinnati Manager Birdie Tebbetts. "The umpires tell me it doesn't matter...
...Asked for It has required Baker to stand still while a knife-thrower ringed his body with blades, an archer sent steel-tipped arrows whistling through balloons held close to his side, and a marksman shot the ace of spades out of his hand. He has been hoisted head-high by Ada Ash, billed as "the world's strongest woman." As his show last week was entering its sixth year for the same sponsor (Skippy Peanut Butter), You Asked's cameras interviewed the dietician for San Diego's zoo, poked into an exhibition of whipcracking and sharpshooting...
...edge shouting, "Run! Run! Get out of the canyon!" The group of nine heard his faint voice above them and threw themselves at the canyon wall, scrambling up 200 yards to safety. The others may never have had warning until the flames came rushing and hopping through the head-high chaparral upon them. They...