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...project seeks to demonstrate that the missing birds could have sunk to the ocean bottom, floated out to sea, or washed up on deserted shores. In separate studies, meanwhile, the state of Alaska killed more than 200 ducks and scores of mammals, including deer, otter, mink and seals, to analyze long-term contamination effects...
...close to nature survive, his main concerns. Lord knows he has done his homework, and he details the destruction repeatedly and with bite. Here is how Bill House, a hardy plume hunter, sees the history of the region: "The Injuns was taking some egrets, trading 'em in with their otter pelts for gunpowder and whisky. The rookeries over by Lake Okeechobee, they was shot out in four years . . . If you recall that plumes would bring exactly twice their weight in gold, you can figure out why men fought over rookeries, and shot to kill...
When Oliver and Waldeck are not on the road together, they split up. Oliver now lives in Austin, and Waldeck's home is still Philadelphia, where he moonlights with a local folk-rock rhythm-and-blues band called the Roosters. Oliver spends many nights playing with Austin's Otter Space Band and many days presenting environment programs in Texas secondary and elementary schools. "We want to pass on our ideas to youngsters," he says. He also composes public-service jingles for cities and towns. One water-conservation message was titled "Please Don't Leave the Water Running When You Wash...
...airplane engine is one of the few things that bring hope to the Fugnido refugee camp, a desolate stretch of Ethiopia where 57,000 survivors of Sudan's civil war subsist. But on Aug. 7, Fugnido's residents listened in vain for the sound of the Twin Otter carrying Texas Congressman Mickey Leland, 44, who had visited five times before. His plane had crashed nose-first into a mountain 30 miles away, killing all 16 aboard...
...meantime, I don't know about you, but if Dawn is mild enough for the Northern Sea Otter, I'm going to make the switch from Palmolive...