Word: owl
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HORMONES GET BLAMED FOR JUST ABOUT EVERY ADolescent foible, so here's another to add to the list: teenagers may stay up later than younger kids because of physical changes during puberty, a study in the journal Sleep suggests. Until now, researchers (and certainly parents) assumed that night-owl adolescents were either being rebellious or pressured by friends. But a study of 458 sixth-graders, controlled for some social factors, found that students who were more physically mature chose to go to bed later than those just entering puberty. The same students also slept later on weekends than their prepubescent...
...deleted provisions raising the minimal rates farmers and miners pay to use federal lands. Environmentalists see the discounts as a guarantee of despoilment and Clinton's act as political cowardice. They were still nervous days later when he chaired a Portland, Oregon, "forest conference" on logging and the spotted owl, topics viewed by some as mutually exclusive. At the impassioned gathering, which featured concerned conservationists and unemployed lumberjacks, Administration aides chatted of legislation that would protect the owl under the Endangered Species Act but also allow some logging to resume. That might not delight Hair and his colleagues...
...multispecies approach in which ecosystems will be examined as a whole. This will require government scientists and researchers to integrate their efforts across agency lines and produce comprehensive biological surveys. As a case in point, Babbitt cites the feuding among federal agencies in the fight over the northern spotted owl of the Pacific Northwest forests...
Sifting through my box, I got to three of those owl valentines first. You know, the ones that say, "It'd be a HOOT if you'd be my Valentine!" They're the friendship valentines that card companies need to make so that you don't have to worry about people getting the wrong idea. Turtle valentines are pretty good for that, too, as I recall...
...would seem that some in the room haven't been listening to Vice President-elect Al Gore '69 too closely. He said time and time again during the presidential campaign that helping the environment does not necessarily mean cutting jobs, as in the example of the Northern spotted owl...