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...instance, a newly attacked bicyclist veers into the path of an oncoming bicycle. Or car. Or an attack so deeply traumatizes a child that she doesn't want to be near birds again. Nevertheless, "it's startling," says David Willard, manager of the bird collection at the Field Museum, who has himself been attacked by a red wing. In previous years, Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo has hoisted signs near ponds warning its patrons: "Red Wing Black Birds in the Area. Walk Around...
...comparatively secretive female lovers (yes, male red wings are polygamous). Females tend to carry a brown, streaky coat. Males are usually black, with a red patch on their wings. By mid-June, nests have been settled. "That's when we get the attack males," explains Willard of the Field Museum. Once the roughly 10-day incubation period begins, male red wings begin hovering around the nests. Only after their young leave the nests does the aggressiveness calm down...
Gross also takes responsibility for putting arts planning for the new Allston campus back on track. Last year, Harvard shelved proposals for an arts museum there in the face of community opposition to the University's planning process at the time...
...beloved. "It actually makes me quite proud that these men that are so demonized are capable of producing these pieces of artwork," says Moazzam Begg, a British man who was an inmate at Guantanamo until he was released in 2005. He conceived of the show after seeing a museum displaying artworks by prisoners held during Ireland's Troubles, and worked with the human rights group Cage Prisoners to sponsor the show. "When one sees what a father makes for a son, what a husband makes for his wife, it humanizes them...
...that Mark Twain frequently landed here to unload freight. Many of Grand Tower's sons took to the river's barges, hoping to escape into a relatively middle-class existence, and glimpse life beyond the Midwest. Few, however, returned. Last month Knupp opened the modest Mississippi River Museum in an abandoned 1890s Main Street doctor's office here to try to preserve that colorful past. But the river may well be the very thing that causes Grand Tower's undoing...