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Vanishing Breeds. When the first count was run on Christmas Day in 1900, birds were getting scarcer in the U.S. The great auk and Labrador duck were gone; the umbrageous flocks of passenger pigeons were reduced to a pathetic aviary remnant; the trumpeter swan seemed likely to be silenced forever. Then came bird-protection laws and treaties. Although these are still not fully enforced, nearly all the once-threatened birds have come back, some in greater numbers than ever before. Birders, as bird watchers call themselves, have multiplied with the birds. Only a handful of the watchers are professional ornithologists...
...facts they do possess. One set of facts they are reasonably sure of: the universe "is made of a fairly uniform mixture of chemical elements; 95% is hydrogen, nearly 5% is helium formed in stars. The small remainder is the heavier elements from lithium to uranium. The elements get scarcer as they get heavier until they reach the atomic weight of 100; after that, their abundance is about the same...
Then international finance went into a series of tailspins. In the last year or so, however, things have been easing up. 'Pazooties' are getting scarcer...
...SCARCER AS LAST OF OLD MASTERS PREPARES TO TAKE IT EASY...
Continued heavy U.S. investment in Canada, particularly in high-interest bonds and Alberta oil, was mainly responsible for the Canadian dollar's rise. The heavy demand for Canadian dollars in the U.S. made them scarcer and pushed up the price...