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...DEADLY ROUNDUP AT SEA Pressure mounts to save the dolphin by restricting tuna fishing AND WITHIN MINUTES HALF A DOZEN POWERFUL SPEEDBOATS ARE LOWERED OVER THE SIDE INTO THE BRIGHT WATERS OF THE EASTERN PACIFIC. BURSTING INTO NOISY LIFE, THEY SLICE THROUGH THE CRESTING WAVE TOPS AT 35 KNOTS. DEAD AHEAD OF THEM, A POD OF PORPOISES, OR DOLPHINS, BOLT WITH FRIGHT, BUT THE FLEEING MARINE MAMMALS ARE SOON OVERTAKEN. LIKE COW PONIES ROUNDING UP CATTLE, THE SPEEDBOATS HERD HUNDREDS...
...Quad Roundup...
Audubon, along with Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club, is considering legal action to halt the condor roundup. The three groups point out that the birds have never bred in captivity and that the dozen hatched in zoos came from eggs taken from nests in the wild; capture of the last six wild condors, they fear, may mean no more eggs. Finally, the environmentalists say, without any condors in the wild, it will be harder to resist the pressure of developers who want to build in the birds' natural habitats. Should the day come when biologists attempt...
...populated. Over a five-year period, at the behest of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Avedon took hundreds of portraits throughout the West. Using an eight-by-ten view camera on a tripod, he photographed people at rodeos in Montana, oil fields in Oklahoma and a "rattlesnake roundup" in Texas. He picked more than 100 of those shots for a traveling exhibition titled "In the American West," which began at the Amon Carter earlier this year and has now opened at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. A condensed version of 44 pictures is also on view...
...vacation sting was part of an eleven-week Florida roundup in which the marshals and local police forces successfully tracked down 3,816 fugitives. Although most of the arrests resulted from more conventional police tactics, the Puno ploy and similar lures helped to collar violent criminals without anyone being injured. "Scams usually work very well with this type of fugitive," said U.S. Marshal Jerry Bullock, "because their entire lives are devoted to getting something for nothing...