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...bureaucrats at the California department of food and agriculture refused, insisting that the . spraying poses no threat to human beings. Now at last the state's anti-medfly force has been induced to yield a bit -- to avoid possible harm to an endangered species named the Stephens' kangaroo...
Warned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that Malathion-base spray could put the 3-in.-long nocturnal rodent at risk (and the state in violation of the Federal Endangered Species Act), officials agreed to avoid aerial spraying of the area where the kangaroo rat is found, a 5-sq.-mi. region of Riverside County 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles. While they bear no malice toward the rats, anti-sprayers are astounded by the decision. The government, said Adelaide Nimitz, president of Families Opposed to Chemical Urban Spraying, would rather "protect the rats and spray people...
Memere's, a Louisiana-style restaurant in Oak Park, Ill., has a loyal clientele for its rattlesnake gumbo. The New Deal restaurant in New York City's Soho is corralling herds of diners with its beaver empanada, kangaroo yakitori and black-buck antelope. Next month Fallow Deer Associates of Hudson, N.Y., will begin supplying health-food stores with prepackaged ground venison and venison burgers...
...their own estimate of Soviet strength. Four of the nine members of Team B, including its chairman Richard Pipes, would become members of the Committee on the Present Danger, a hard-line anti- detente group. Everyone knew the board was stacked -- Ray Cline, a CIA loyalist, called it a kangaroo court. But its alarmist estimates helped set the stage for the vast defense expenditures that began under Carter and peaked during the buying frenzy at the Reagan Pentagon...
...dream: he's a player known not only for hitting in the clutch, taking any inside pitch on the shoulder and ruining double play attempts with his hard slides into second base, but also for instilling a team spirit and sense of purpose in the dugout. Baylor's famed Kangaroo Court brought a looseness and camaraderie to the Red Sox that had been absent for a long time. Baylor, not McNamara, was the leader in the dugout, and there was never any animosity among various groups of players when he was here. It's highly unlikely that Baylor would tolerate...