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...even worse infestation of birds bedevils Scotland Neck, N.C. (pop. 2,869). There, perhaps 20 million blackbirds are jammed into 60 to 85 acres of pine and hardwood trees. Branches have broken under the weight of the birds, and the accumulated carpet of guano in some sections of the woods is a foot thick. No one can figure out why the birds chose this particular town or how to drive the intruders away. One man wrote the mayor with a gruesome plan for overkill: "You mix coarse meal with plaster of paris and feed it to the birds...
...think for Rabbit it is--remember, he is an animal...in the first book he was happy brainlessly working in Mrs. Smith's garden. Yes, he does pine after an animal existence...
...More Shocks. When the two-day round of talks ended, U.S.-Japanese relations had recovered at least some of their old cordiality. Standing with Sato under a towering pine in the garden of Casa Pacifica, the President said that they had just finished the "most comprehensive discussion which has ever taken place between the Prime Minister of Japan and the President of the U.S." Sato concurred. The talks, he declared, "contributed to strengthening the unshakable relationship of mutual trust and inter dependence between the people of the U.S. and Japan." Less enthusiastic, a Sato subordinate remarked: "I guess we will...
...fire-ravaged forests in the name of anyone who sent in a label or code number from a can of its Big John's Beans 'n Fixin's. More than 200,000 requests were received in ten months, and an equivalent number of Ponderosa pine seedlings were planted in Washington's Wenatchee National Forest. The company mailed out a certificate to each respondent in the name of Hunt-Wesson and the U.S. Forest Service stating that he or she had "participated in a national-forest-building program...
...deep space and leave a trail of atomic debris. But as the number of puzzling carbon 14 dates increased, scientists at the universities of Arizona, Pennsylvania and California began testing Libby's assumption by turning to some of the oldest living things on earth-California's bristlecone pine and sequoia trees, which have been growing for as long as 4,000 years. By carefully analyzing the carbon 14 content in the annual growth rings of the trees, they found that there have, in fact, been small but significant changes in the isotope's production over the centuries...