Word: reefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Word may not have filtered down to local chapters of Women's Lib, but a renegade group has been found among the ranks of Australian females. Both sexes of Labroides dimidiatus, an unprepossessing little fish of the wrasse family that lives in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef, are rampant male chauvinists. Not only do the males rule the reef, but the females like the idea so much that they turn into males themselves at the first opportunity...
...than a day from Newport when Lelouch chartered a plane to add some footage to his proposed documentary on his boat's victory, to be called A Man and a Boat. What he got instead was a stunning view of Pen Duick gliding across the finish off Brenton Reef 16 hours in front...
...sailed with honor, but my frail craft wounded its side on a jagged reef...
...sprayed gunfire at the cardplayers, killing Sheik Karume instantly. Karume's bodyguard shot one of the attackers dead, and the driver of one car was captured; the others escaped. Throughout the night, troops combed the island's clove and coconut plantations, and gunboats patrolled the coral-reef waters lest the assassins should try to reach the mainland by dhow or dugout...
...plan to stop polluting the lake within six months. According to an EPA-sponsored study, one solution would be to dump the taconite inland, but Reserve said no. The mining company offered instead to pipe the taconite directly to the lake bottom, where it would supposedly form a harmless reef. That was not the answer, said Ruckelshaus...