Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the somewhat shopworn metaphor that forms its core. Billy (David Bradley) is a melancholy loner whose older brother bullies him and whose mother plays aunt to a succession of one-night uncles. Wandering in the woodlands near his Yorkshire village one morning, he spots a kestrel's nest and becomes intrigued with the bird's grace, its power and freedom. He steals a book on falconry, steals one of the kestrel's offspring and proceeds, with quiet dedication, to train the bird, which he calls Kes. The obvious contrast between earthborn Billy and skyborne...
...been a weird suburban anxiety. Twelve families living along Wright Avenue have killed 27 rattlers so far this year, and as one housewife said, "It's hardly even summer." One man found a snake coiled on the front seat of his car. The snakes slither across manicured lawns, nest in the coolness of garages and patios. Reid Waddell, a 42-year-old butcher, bent down to pick up his evening paper and saw a rattler side-winding across his driveway...
...nervous caution that there have been no deaths. The snakes are Northern Pacific rattlers, whose venom carries a hemolytic agent that destroys the red blood cells. Roughly one foot long at birth (they grow up to five feet), the snakes bear enough poison from the time they leave the nest to kill a full-grown...
...some answers, Psychiatrist Er nest L. Hartmann, 36, advertised in Bos ton and New York papers for long and short sleepers to engage in an eight-night "sleep-in" at Boston State Hos pital's Sleep and Dream Laboratory, which Hartmann directs. His findings in dicate that such people differ from or dinary sleepers - and each other - not so much physically as psychologically...
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