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...love Faust before they ever heard his wonderfully hoarse voice, more like Andy Devine's than Dan's, and impressions of Faust were hardly damaged by the news that he had been whistling the Notre Dame fight song since the age of ten. Besides, despite a devoutness at Moeller High that extended to leading sideline "Hail Marys," he had shown no qualms about grinding his Crusaders' boots into overmatched opponents' necks...
...Moeller farm on Mormon Island, Neb., lies right in the path of the central flyway, a great avian migratory route that runs from central Mexico to eastern Siberia. Through it each spring pass 560,000 sandhill cranes, 9 million ducks and geese, more than 500 bald eagles, 104 piping plovers, 110 least terns and 96 of the world's remaining population of 171 whooping cranes. Few bird watchers are lucky enough to spot the latter along their 2,500-mile flight from the Gulf Coast of Texas to Canada's Northwest Territories. They are secretive, and they travel in small...
...gathering of sandhill cranes on and around the Moeller farm is one of nature's most spectacular rites of spring. "It is," writes Ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson, "the largest concentration of any species of crane anywhere in the world." In the lifting darkness that precedes sunrise, the sandhills roosting in the shallows might be mistaken for carvings on a stone frieze. Soon the frieze begins to ripple with motion as the cranes stretch their wings and, voices rising, take off in small groups of 20 and 30. For over an hour, the river casts out lines of great gray birds...
...annual chorus is a familiar sound to Pat and Larry Moeller. "It's eerie," says Pat. "A couple of weeks ago, there were so many they filled the sky, and there was not a one that didn't have its mouth open." The Moellers live in a white farmhouse on 400 acres of land that used to belong to Larry's father and uncle, and before that his grandfather, and before that his great grandfather. Next year, however, title to the property will pass to a local conservation group called the Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust. "It's kind...
...o.e.c.d. report, almost five times as many were receiving disability benefits. And "that's the end of the story," Stefan Tromel, director of the European Disability Forum, told the Financial Times. Other methods have been devised to address the problem in the short term - like attendance bonuses. At the Moeller plant in the Czech Republic, such bonuses have succeeded in reducing absenteeism even as the situation in the rest of the country deteriorates. But the idea leaves some observers incredulous. Says France's De Closets: "A reward for simply coming in and doing the job?" There's always the simplest...