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Although they have similar styles, Desaulniers is quicker, more consistent in shotmaking and more of a finesse player, while Page has a slightly more explosive, powerful game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Matchups: | 2/4/1978 | See Source »

...wildlife sanctuaries and even help airlines reroute their planes to avoid dangerous collisions with migrating birds. The bird count also acts as an environmental early-warning system. Recalling the canaries that miners took with them into coal mines to detect noxious fumes, Stahr explains that birds are usually quicker than man to react to changes about them. One example: the decline of many species-peregrine falcons, ospreys, brown pelicans-because of widespread use of insecticides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: It's All for the Birds! | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

Murray commented that "College hockey is much quicker and rougher than high school." Still, Evans was thankful for better officiating in college games. "On my team last year, there wasn't one game we played where there wasn't a fight. In college play, fighting is strictly forbidden...

Author: By Theodore S. Chandler, | Title: Benson, Evans, McDonald and Murray: Another First-Year Phenomenon Hits the Ice | 1/5/1978 | See Source »

With superior depth, height, a better shooting touch and quicker passing, Springfield won this game going away from the depleted Crimson. James Naismith will rest easy in his grave as he savors this victory of his hometown companions...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Springfield Deals Crimson Women Double Loss | 12/16/1977 | See Source »

...1940s, medical labs in California imported thousands of African clawed frogs to be used in pregnancy tests for women. Rabbits, however, proved quite significantly quicker and better, so the redundant frogs were released, and jumped along into mud dy coastal waterways and flood control basins from Santa Barbara to San Diego. It was an act of kindness that should have been avoided. Feeding insatiably on fish eggs, minnows, insects and tadpoles of other frog species, the aggressive African guests have upset the ecological balance in a five-county area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Getting Jumpy About Frogs | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

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