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...really quite simple: A poor but honorable lad named Charles Ryder (played in the new movie by Matthew Goode) goes up to Oxford where he meets Sebastian Marchmain (Ben Whishaw) when the latter leans in his window and throws up on his floor. Soon enough they're dining on plover's eggs and mooning over one another. Sebastian introduces Charles to his family - in this film living in a statelier home than any Masterpiece Theater ever dreamed of - which includes his sister, Julia (Hayley Atwell), and his sternly religious mother (Emma Thompson, splendidly playing as far from her usual inviting...
...science is straightforward. Two years ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a "biological opinion," urging the Army Corps of Engineers, which regulates the water, to change the way it runs the dams, warning that the steady flow threatens three endangered species: the piping plover, least tern and pallid sturgeon, a long-snouted behemoth that looks like a refugee from the Jurassic period. A higher spring flow would signal the sturgeon to spawn and would provide food; the piping plover would find hospitable nesting ground on sandbars carved out by the rushing current. A summer drawdown would create shallows...
...yellow, 3 is green, 9 is orange and yellow. Months of the year also have their individual colors, which she notes each time she turns over a new calendar page. Your article was interesting and intriguing to me as I saw it--in simple black and white. BEVERLY GROSS Plover...
...weary, or that nutation is the wobble in the earth's axis caused by the pull of the moon? Who remembers that there was a time when the head of the house didn't simply carve the roast but allayed a pheasant, reared a goose, minced a plover, dismembered a hen or disfigured a peacock...
Harvard Attorney Daniel Plover said that if the board simply affirmed its February decision. "you would be cutting the baby in half...