Word: owls
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Twin Doughnuts, named by the original owner after the birth of his twins, is perched at the juncture of North Beacon and Cambridge Streets (easily accessible by the T’s Route 66 Night Owl Bus). Doughnut-lovers and hungry clubbers are drawn to this late night Mecca by its inviting 1950’s-style neon-pink sign...
...Partnership for the West, a coalition of ranching and energy interests that mounted a fierce yearlong lobbying campaign against federal involvement. "A sage grouse listing would be used by radical environmentalists to take control of vast public and private lands," says spokesman Jim Sims. "It would be the spotted owl on steroids...
...fight over the chicken-size bird, whose 110 million-acre habitat is 12 times bigger than the spotted owl's, may have just begun. Industry groups plan to pressure next year's friendlier Congress to weaken the 30-year-old endangered-species law. Meanwhile, a score of conservation groups, including lawyers who fought the timber industry over the owl, are preparing to file suit to force a sage grouse listing. By law, such decisions must be based on science alone, but a leaked copy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's synthesis of biological information shows extensive editing...
...Kids will be more interested in the way an upside-down A becomes a drippy ice-cream cone or a sideways E turns into an electric plug. Ernst's ingenuity is equal even to the challenge of letters that don't change when turned, like O (a bagel, an owl's eye, a fried egg) and X (a railroad-crossing sign, a treasure map's end, a ballerina's shoe ribbons...
Today, eight all-male final clubs remain: The Porcellian, The Phoenix, The Spee, The Delphic, The Owl...