Word: reindeers
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...frozen wastes of Finland's Lapland province, the reindeer is not only food, transportation and a Lapp's best friend. It is also the automobile's most frequent victim. During the dark winter days, when the sun hardly ever shines, approximately 1,700 reindeer are killed by cars each year, at a cost of about $170 each to the hapless owners of the beasts and hefty repair bills to the drivers. The Reindeer Grazers Association thought that it had the answer to the problem last year, when it painted some of the reindeer antlers with a phosphorescent...
...five years they have been able to delay the building of the Alaska pipeline. Their arguments were that it would interfere with the sex habits of reindeer, damage the permafrost, pose a hazard because of the danger of earthquakes and, finally, that there might be oil spillage...
...ever seen. They traveled to the western Siberian oilfields of Samotlor and Surgut, and emerged with the first color photographs of the area ever taken by an American photographer. At Aldan, Sochurek talked Aeroflot officials into renting him a helicopter to photograph the gold fields and track down the reindeer herds that graze in the area. In the eastern Siberian republic of Buryat, he visited and became the first American to photograph the isolated Buryat Buddhist monastery...
...heat New York. Two thousand miles to the southeast, gigantic cranes rear against the brilliant wilderness sky as they erect the skeleton of a new dam, half a mile long and 300 ft. high, across the frozen Angara River. Up in Yakutia, where temperatures dip to -90° F., reindeer-driven sleds bring supplies to geological-survey teams charting the wasteland for coal, iron...
...Christmas has long since been overcommercialized and lost forever is an established fact, but Mr. Snyder's plan to exploit his wife's 38-in. bosom has to set a new low for the Christmas card of 1973. Personally, I would rather see Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, and I'll bet the Snyders' friends would...