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While most species of bats live in vast colonies in caves or trees, some nest in spider webs; others fashion "tents" out of leaves. In southern India, for example, the male short-nosed fruit bat spends as long as two months painstakingly chewing the veins of leaves and palm fronds until they collapse into a shelter that will house him and a harem of as many as 20 females...
When Newt Gingrich was fighting his way through a horde of reporters into Border Books in Phoenix, Arizona, last Wednesday, it didn't take too much imagination to reduce the temperature by 70 degrees, raze the palm trees, and picture another gray-haired politician caught in press gridlock in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1992, right after Gennifer Flowers made her charges against then-Governor Bill Clinton. Now it's Gingrich's turn, and it's Anne Manning, a former campaign worker, who went on the record for the first time in a just-published Vanity Fair article saying...
...speak to a G.O.P. gathering last month, even though they knew House Speaker Newt Gingrich would steal the show simply by turning up. Wilson also chose to conduct his early focus groups in the state, and is almost claiming it as a second home: his father lives in West Palm Beach. All told, Republican candidates have made more than three dozen trips to the state this year...
...militiaman's infinitely more satisfying present, a crowd applauds madly. He addresses the audience in Palm Springs. "If I fall," he asks, "who will pick up the flag?" And from his listeners, glad cries ring back, "I will! I will...
...whatever Koernke's actions and associations back home, it is his role as a traveling salesman that seems to take most of his energy. Since April he has bobbed up in Livonia, Palm Springs and Orlando, Florida. At each venue he works the Oklahoma City bombing more snugly into his world view as "yet another foot stomp on the part of the new-world-order crowd to manipulate the population," softening it up for draconian new antiterrorism measures. At each venue, it seems, there are more reporters. At each Koernke touches a few more people...