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There is even more to it than the exotic scatter of events. As always, the truly Big Picture is an array of infinitesimal glimpses: the swimmer understanding that she has lost, the gymnast glancing back at the Scoreboard with a double take, almost panicky, to make sure the 10 really was a 10. Moments before victory, moments without victory, moments beyond victory. All of them Olympic...
Perhaps the most emotional issue involving Arnett is his unyielding stand on the fatal ingestion by waterfowl of spent lead shotgun pellets that hunters scatter in marshlands. Hair, a wildlife biologist, and other environmentalists say that the lead-shot toll may be as high as 4 million ducks annually. They contend that the deaths could be avoided by switching to steel pellets. Arnett's answer: "It's not that easy." Accepting the argument of many hunters that the lighter steel pellets have less stopping power and that consequently more ducks would be injured, he has cut back...
...assignment" or "focus" in their writing. Of course no one "really" knew what the assignment was, least of all her--until she had read the paper. The students in that "section" constantly believed that they were being set up to be knocked down, penalized for the lazy, scatter-brained behavior of the instructor...
...southwest South Dakota. Their goal is the fantastically lucrative uranium bed that sits under the land and that could, if properly cultivated, prove a panacea to the tribe's poverty. It could mean, among other things, hundreds of thousands of dollars for education and jobs. It could also scatter acres of carcinogenic dust and toxic uranium across the tribe's reservation...
...President's image in an election year. Indeed, he has already sent a number of small fence-mending signals to the environmental community. Reversing a Watt policy, he offered the National Wildlife Federation hitherto-refused federal data on the amount of poisonous lead shot that duck hunters inadvertently scatter into lakes and ponds. With that gesture, he buried the hatchet with the largest conservation group in the U.S. Clark also promised that he would end the moratorium imposed by Watt on acquiring new land for the national parks and wildlife refuges, a major irritant to outdoor groups...