Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their Ordnungsliebe, could not make a revolution because they refuse to walk on the grass. Today, West German police estimate that there are no more than 50 committed terrorists-abetted by perhaps 2,000 active sympathizers-in a population of more than 61 million. Despite the massive, nationwide man hunt for the killers of kidnaped Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, the terrorists have not yet given up or gone underground. Last week Austrian police disclosed that members of the Red Army Faction were responsible for the kidnaping in November of Viennese Millionaire Walter Palmers. He was released unharmed after his family...
...startling discovery: most of the apparent egg overproduction was the result of homosexual pairings of female birds, each producing the normal number of eggs. The female pairs-some 10% of the population-produce both sterile eggs and eggs fertilized by a visiting male. "We were absolutely astounded," said George Hunt, 35, a biologist at the University of California at Irvine. "This sort of thing has not been found before and was clearly not what we anticipated...
...Hunt and his wife Molly, 32, who is also his co-researcher, studied 1,200 pairs of the gulls for five years on Santa Barbara Island, an uninhabited rock about 40 miles from Los Angeles. Seven of eight female pairs that were trapped and marked by the researchers in 1975 were still together in 1976. In all of these pairs, one of the females adopted some male courtship and territorial behavior. In three cases, a female attempted to mount and copulate with her female mate...
...Hunts are not sure why the phenomenon arose and, with other researchers, are currently examining gull hormones for a possible answer. But the likely explanation is simply a shortage of males. If a female cannot attract a permanent mate, but can manage to become impregnated by a mated male, it makes sense to move in with another female who can share duties of protecting and feeding the young. Such behavior, says George Hunt, "would increase the probabilities of raising the young from zero to about 10%." So far the Hunts have "tentative, preliminary evidence" of a male shortage among...
...MIDDLE SECTION, "What They Were Hunting For," is the least satisfying part of the book. The "hunt" is for a new state capital, to replace the inaccesible town of Juneau. The politicians and businessmen of Anchorage an Fairbanks have ruled out each other's cities, because each group wants the new honor that it, the resulting power and additional revenue additional revenue to fall on its own city. With literally no alternate choices, the politicians decide to build a new capital, grimly citing the example of Brasilia, a city built in the wilderness because "various parts of Brazil despise...