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...least 35 of the pests entered the U.S. and British Columbia last fall, apparently as hitchhikers aboard a group of Russian freighters. The newly hatched caterpillars climbed up to the highest point on the ship, and were eventually blown to shore. Considered far more destructive than the European gypsy moth, which annually defoliates 4 million acres in the American Northeast, the Asian gypsy moth has decimated millions of acres in Siberia and China. Among the reasons: the Asian moths can cover 20 miles before laying their eggs. (Females of the European variety do not fly.) If the Asian gypsy moth...
...confines of the time frame, Wertenbaker discusses the criminal character (is it habit or "innate tendency"?); the importance of art (is it "an expression of civilization" or a waste of time?); and patriotism (should these new immigrants try to "remember England" or transfer their allegiance to the "iniquitous shore" of Australia...
...than Labour to curb 9.4% unemployment, high interest rates and the spate of business bankruptcies and closures. Ultimately, Labour's attempts to convince voters that it had shed its socialist spots failed. The party's renunciation of its old high-taxing, free-spending habits were offset by promises to shore up education, health care and other domestic programs, which Britain's largest accounting firm calculated would add $47 billion to the national budget...
...crews are coached the old-fashioned way: from the coxswain's seat or a bicycle pedalled along the shore...
...when the purists have finished gazing longingly at the historic red brick building, they can fix their eyes on the grass (home grown, one Oriole official reminded me, in Salisbury on Maryland's Eastern Shore) in right-center field, where the parents of legendary Yankees' slugger Babe Ruth once reportedly ran a tavern...