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...pipeline companies have gone out of their way to avoid criticism from ecological watchdogs. For example, to protect the prairie habitat of the rarely seen black-footed ferret, Northern Border engineers enforced a 15-mile "construction constraint" along one stretch of the line in the Dakotas in order to loop around certain prairie-dog towns, which the ferrets raid for prey. The company also held up work in several other sections for two weeks to avoid interfering with the nesting habits of prairie falcons...
Brown's course features a steep and winding first mile, followed by a three-mile loop around a lake. Yesterday's meet "went out slow, but then picked up hard," according to Regan, who added that one of the team's goals has been to "move up the pack's pace," in preparation for the bigger meets later this month...
...early winter now. The daytime temperature hovers in the 30s, and at night the frost shades the windows of the few white wooden houses. When the wind doesn't roar, it howls in the rolling hills. Seagulls loop and cry above the harbor. If this were a normal season, there would be the slight scent of peat in the air, and the residents of the settlement would be going about the business of putting the rams out to the ewes. There are late potatoes and winter cabbage in the family vegetable gardens. The sheep dogs would either be working...
Such occasions pass, marked only by photographs. Some of Paik's pieces were more permanent, like a television set with the screen removed and a candle burning in the empty cabinet-a neat comment on the votive, shrinelike role played by TV in the home-or a closed-loop setup titled TV Buddha, in which a stone effigy of the Buddha sits with a camera pointed at it, ceaselessly contemplating its own immobile image in a small monitor...
...paper claiming to have found a monopole "candidate," the scientific community's excitement soon gave way to skepticism. In the end, Price admitted he had been a bit hasty. Says Price of Cabrera: "His technique is extremely sophisticated. It looks just like a monopole going through the loop...