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Within the giant cabinets that fill each floor of the building, scientists store collections of an incredible array of creatures, from the largest bird in the world to the smallest owl, fossils of the earliest known life or fossilized mammoths. In all, the museum houses collections of almost every historical precursor to men, including a marine biology section...
...mammals department has the largest collection of gibbons because of expeditions in Borneo and Thailand that "decimated whole hill sides," Rutzmoser says, adding. "We wouldn't do that anymore...
Madison, of course, is referring to the Presidency of Ronald Reagan and the candidacy of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. Reagan gets liberals angry; Jackson is actively trying to appeal to a class of voters traditionally underrepresented in the voting population. Together, they are helping spur one of the largest get-out-the-vote efforts in recent history. Not since the succession of marches in the South that prompted the voting Rights Act of 1965 has there been such avid interest in voter registration. While traditional groups like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP...
...infection in newborn calves. Some 25,000 doses of the substance have already been ordered, and the firm expects that it will generate sales of more than $1 million during the first three months of 1984. Says Company President and Co-Founder Franklin Pass: "This could be the second largest medicine in the world for animal sickness after foot-and-mouth-disease vaccines...
...largest applause during the 20-minute speech came in response to the former South Dakota Senator's call for a mutual reduction in both nuclear and conventional weapons...