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Decorating the Commonwealth's Coat of Arms and the tails of Qantas jetliners, the kangaroo has every right to be called Australia's national emblem, though many Australians sometimes wish they had never heard of the beast. Anywhere from 6,000,000 to 16 million kangaroos roam the Australian plains, alternately drinking up the outback water supply and eating the best pasture grass. For these reasons alone, the nation's sheep herders and cattle ranchers not long ago decided the kangaroo had to go, and at last count their vendetta was producing...
...Though kangaroo hunting dates back years in Australia, it is only recently that it has become more a war than a sport. Some Australians have been so worried by the slaughter that several states ruled that kangaroo hunters must be licensed, but this resulted in the buying up of licenses by wealthy landowners who turned right around and hired sharpshooters to get the job done. One estimate now places the registered kangaroo shooters in Queensland alone at close to 1,800, most of whom hire themselves out to ranchers, and a good hunter can earn...
...Lions looked as if they'd never seen one before; they sank one field goal in the third quarter. Meanwhile, McClung was stuffing 'em in like Wilt Chamberlain. Sedlucok was jumping in 20-foot jump shots as if he were using radar. Williams was jumping like a kangaroo. Offensively and defensively, the quintet functioned brilliantly as they racked up 50 points in the second half and rolled up a 22-point lead until they put in their reserves...
...member of the Spanish Communist Party, and his professional police training soon landed him a key job in the Red apparatus. He became chief of "criminal investigations" for Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona, ferreting out supporters of Francisco Franco. Part of Grimau's job was to serve on kangaroo courts, called Chekas (after the onetime initials of the Soviet secret police), which ordered dozens of summary death sentences during the brutal three-year...
...focused first on consonants and on only two vowel sounds: "I told Jonny that when two big round o's get together they look at each other and say 'oo!' and I taught him short a as in cat. Then I figured out sentences-A kangaroo has a hoola hoop. A rat and a fat raccoon. Dad has a bamboo hat. Can I pat a baboon...