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Maui, with its rain forests and high volcanic range, boasts some 1,300 of the higher plants that exist only in the Hawaiian Islands. Indigenous birds include the black-necked stilt, the claw-footed nene, the short-eared owl and the blue-faced booby, and there are such unique fauna as the monk seal, the hoary bat and the predacious caterpillar. (There are no snakes on the islands.) Maui's waters teem with more than 700 species of fish, perhaps 20% of which are to be found only in Hawaii. The island's most faithful visitor...
...problem began as workers were performing maintenance operations on a well at Phillips Petroleum Co.'s Platform Bravo, a stilt-legged rig some 280 kilometers (175 miles) southwest of Norway. Usually crews conduct these periodic "workovers" by closing the valves on the "Christmas tree," or top part of the well, pumping heavy mud down the well shaft to force the oil back to its underground reservoir, and then sealing the well with a cap called a blowout preventer. This time, as the crew worked to fasten the blowout preventer, pressure in the well unexpectedly built up and blew...
...horns of the dilemma as she trained on a bull ranch near Seville, Angelita exploded: "These damned men. What do they think they are doing? Women fly planes, fight wars and go on safaris; what's so different about fighting bulls?" ∙ An odd couple, Wilt ("the Stilt") Chamberlain, 7 ft. 1 in., and Champion Jockey Willie Shoemaker, 4 ft. 11 in. But they have more in common than meets the eye, Little Willie told fellow roasters barbecuing Wilt on the Dean Martin Show to be shown Nov. 9. Born identical twins, said Shoemaker, "we both grew...
...canoe known as the country boat. For seven hours we plied deeper into Gopalganj subdivision in southern Faridpur district. The two wiry oarsmen found their way by taking note of such landmarks as a forlornly decaying maharajah's palace and giant butterfly nets hovering like outsized flamingos on stilt legs at water's edge...
...Many Tricks? This is not to say that Brook has violated Shakespeare. However, the incessant sportive business of the production-stilt-walking, juggling, confetti and paper-olate throwing -makes one wonder a little about the Brook who has said that in today's theater "we must open our empty hands and show that really there is nothing up our sleeves." Is he not now committed to wearing a few too many tricks on his sleeve...