Word: roam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quickly becomes ill. The object: to make coyotes feel that sheep are sickening. All these things have proved too inefficient or too costly to be much help. Is there, then, any safe, cheap and humane way of containing coyotes? Perhaps, say biologists. U.S. sheepmen have traditionally allowed sheep to roam their ranges, fenced in but otherwise untended by shepherds or dogs. Now they are being urged simply to bring back the faithful sheep dogs that have been used in Europe and Asia for centuries...
Adding to the desperate atmosphere is an eleven-member contingent of the Guardian Angels, a publicity-conscious group of young New Yorkers who roam that city's troubled subway system in hopes of preventing crimes. Their fares to Atlanta were paid by a New York businessman, and local supporters gave them housing, a van and free gasoline. Since then the Angels, wearing their trademark red berets, have been patrolling Atlanta's black neighborhoods. The City-Wide Advisory Council on Housing, Inc., a public housing lobby group, has asked the Angels to establish a permanent chapter in Atlanta. Other...
...souls who don't mind a half-mile hike or an occasional bear-venture to higher regions, spending the week at Tenaya, or Tioga, or Tuolomne. And then there are those who are not content near even the last vestiges of civilization. They are the back-packers--and they roam the High Sierra...
...wintry sort of book. It belongs to the wet, inturned season when nights are long and there is plenty of time to let thoughts roam. Time seems suspended; thoughts float across a century back and forth, scenes and words fade in, become sharply realized, and then mist into Doig's own reflections. The foggy, drizzling winter is always beautifully present to induce a daydreamy readiness for time travel and introspection; it is Doig's favorite climate, and he knows one can't move too fast in our sluggish, droopy winter. A page-turner Winter Brothers is not; it needs plenty...
...more than 12,000 gorillas still roam freely in their native Central Africa, and many experts feel that wild gorillas could be all but extinct by the year 2000. That leaves only zoos, primate centers and wildlife preserves as repositories of these greatest of all apes. Yet the 600 or so gorillas in captivity have been extremely poor breeders. Only about 100 animals have been born in North America in the past decade, hardly enough to ensure survival of the species...