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...this chair in February, after beating out thousands of firefighter hopefuls from around the country in a selective process that can stretch more than a decade. It all starts with a civil service exam, the firefighter’s version of the SAT. Hopefuls take the test every other year by the thousands, many of them with lifelong dreams...
...hate for this to be considered a stretch of Harvard’s river,” said Margaret Van Deusen, deputy director of the Charles River Waterfront Society...
...Ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson, "the largest concentration of any species of crane anywhere in the world." In the lifting darkness that precedes sunrise, the sandhills roosting in the shallows might be mistaken for carvings on a stone frieze. Soon the frieze begins to ripple with motion as the cranes stretch their wings and, voices rising, take off in small groups of 20 and 30. For over an hour, the river casts out lines of great gray birds. They soar over winter-brown pasture and goldencorn stubble--giant kites on invisible strings. But sandhill cranes cannot pass for paper birds very...
...have developed into large islands overgrown with brush and cottonwood trees. Around them the water, only half a mile across, flows in narrow channels too deep for cranes. The result: where the birds used to spread out over 300 miles of river, they now congregate in one 80-mile stretch. As they crowd ever more densely together, thousands could be lost to disease...
...Dakota radio station is sponsoring an essay contest that will reward winners with transportation down to the line. A chili cook-off is planned along the route in Texas. Members of the feuding Navajo and Hopi Indian tribes have got together to endorse the event. Along a ten-mile stretch in New Mexico, thousands of hot-air balloons will ascend simultaneously. The chain will snake through the Pittsburgh Pirates' Three Rivers Stadium, where Pete Rose's Cincinnati Reds will be playing, so that fans and players can join hand to glove...