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...first time people have complained about rogue crocodiles in Lakefield National Park. In the mid-1990s, a radical kind of aversion therapy was tried there in which rangers captured a crocodile, then shot a rifle near it, repeatedly circled it in a boat, and dazzled it with a spotlight. Says one ranger: "That croc has behaved itself ever since." But not all experts endorse such tactics. At Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Professor Graham Webb, who pioneered crocodile research and management in the Northern Territory, says unpleasant encounters with humans make the reptiles much harder to spot. "All it will...
...discouraged him from army service.“It strengthens my resolve to do my job because a comrade and a friend was hurt in combat,” Trama said. Before Morris served in Iraq, he enrolled in the Army’s Infantry Officer Basic Course and Ranger School in Fort Benning, Ga. Morris completed his training as a second lieutenant in May 2005 and in June he reported to the Second Battalion of the 502nd Infantry Regiment in the 101st Airborne Division.Morris said his 30-person platoon aimed to provide security for Iraq’s fledgling...
...first winter trip of the season when the climber was hurt in the vicinity of Huntington Ravine near the HMC-operated cabin. The climber lost his footing due to a gust of wind and fell about 125 meters down the snow slope, according to Justin Preisendorfer, a snow ranger at the White Mountain National Forest. The climber suffered fractures to his arm and rib damage resulting from the fall, HMC President Lucas T. Laursen ’06 wrote in an e-mail. After the accident, one of the injured climber’s partners went down...
Carver came with immediate problems: Jacobs had to sell more boats in a soft economy. Among Carver's assets was Ranger Boats, which had been founded by Forrest L. Wood, a pine-tree- tall Arkansan in a Stetson who is pretty much the Paul Bunyan of bass fishing. Ranger, along with other fishing-industry firms, had for years sponsored fishing tournaments, but the payouts had been small because the companies couldn't afford big prizes...
Beyond the hoopla was the naked quest for sales. And it turns out the bassfest was good business all around. Genmar, Jacobs' boatbuilding company, moved more boats; Ranger continues to gain share in a flat market. Wal-Mart, meanwhile, got a boost because fishing made its stores more attractive to men, who have a tendency to shop well beyond Department 9--sporting goods--and visit other parts of the store...