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Meanwhile, in Cambridge, the bird's former roost-mates began a frantle search for the stray sophist. Several were seen lurking near city pumpkin plots (the bird lives on pumpkin seeds) with purse nets...
When the warm, water came in 1891 and again in 1925, it had disastrous effects on the guano birds. Millions migrated to southern Peru; finding few islands to roost on, they took to the dangerous land, where they fell prey to all sorts of land-based enemies...
...year the cycle of disaster threatened the birds again. The sea grew warm and fish scarce. Streams of hungry birds ribboned down the coast. But this time they found sanctuary: "artificial islands" that the good Guano Co. had made for them by building walls across promontories. The birds can roost on them, safe from land enemies, and the cold sea around them swarms with fish...
...system, regulated by electronic "eyes" on the roof which adjust the temperature by the sun's heat. By conservative official reckoning, it cost $83 million. At first it was called "Somervell's folly"; critics predicted that after World War II it would become a vast, desolate pigeon roost. Now actually filled to overflowing, it is probably the most efficiently used building in the Government's vast catalogue of real estate...
Another ambitious Socialist scheme flapped sadly home to roost last week: the government confessed that its taxpayer-financed poultry farm in Gambia, West Africa, was a failure...