Word: snailing
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Will they be saved? The Endangered Species Act is up for reauthorization this year, and a throng of interest groups is determined to weaken it. Not since 1977, when an 8-cm (3-in.) fish called the snail darter halted construction of Tennessee's Tellico Dam, has this critical piece of environmental legislation generated so much controversy...
Limbaugh picks his spots. He praises Ronald Reagan ("Ronaldus Magnus") for everything he likes about the '80s and blames the Democratic Congress for everything he hates. Snail darters get more play on his show than the recession. The chief miscreants in the B.C.C.I. scandal are not the Justice Department honchos who quashed any investigation for two years but Democrats like Jimmy Carter and Clark Clifford. Big Government is bad, except when it provides plenty of guns and bombs; big corporations are good, except when they knuckle under to liberal consumer groups. "You simply cannot have the public at large telling...
...people to sacrifice in the name of other creatures. After all, it is hard enough to ask people to sacrifice in the name of other humans. (Think of the chronic public resistance to foreign aid and welfare.) Ask hardworking voters to sacrifice in the name of the snail darter, and, if they are feeling polite, $ they will give you a shrug...
Improvements in communications and transportation have made the world's disasters no easier to handle. Even with better warning systems, reactions can be snail-paced, ill-considered and futile. The first days following a catastrophe are the most critical for survivors. The demand for speed, however, is precisely what the world's complex disaster-relief network is not geared to meet. Says Nicholas Hinton, director general of Britain's Save the Children Fund: "Disaster relief is proving to be inadequate and ineffective. It should be reformed as a matter of urgency...
...narrow confines of Beantown's sports asylum, the Garden is far from wide-open Bright Center--where the Crimson owns a 11-2-1 record. Therefore, to prepare for tonight's ice surface--which is 25 feet shorter and seven feet narrower than Bright (not to mention the snail's pace of the Garden ice)--Tomassoni has been shuttling his squad to smaller rinks all over Boston...