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...Supreme Court in two cases to narrow the grounds on which environmental groups could sue the Federal Government. What has the greens most worried is a dissent filed by Roberts on a request for a rehearing by a California real estate developer in a case involving the threatened arroyo toad, protected under the Endangered Species Act. Roberts argued that the plaintiffs should at least be granted a second hearing by the full court because the Constitution's commerce clause, which says Congress may pass laws controlling interstate commerce, was being misapplied; it does not authorize Congress to pass laws protecting...
...Teeth fly upward in slo-mo; then a Road Runner--style chase zips by in superspeedy-mo. The Pig Sty denizens have the resilience of Warner Bros. cartoon characters: lips, throats, bosoms expand to gargantuan size, then snap back. Punctuating the mayhem are sound effects (mooing, clucking, cat mewls, toad croaks) worthy of a Spike Jones symphony...
...Sing the word ‘toad,’ beginning on a low pitch (for your range) and instantly sliding up in pitch in glissando (like a siren...
...Frogs Make a Right? When Australians imported cane toads from Venezuela in 1935 to eat the beetles that were destroying sugar cane crops, they didn't count on the poisonous amphibians going after kookaburras, snakes and native cats instead. Now, after decades and millions of dollars spent trying to eradicate the man-made plague, a solution may be at hand: the DAHL'S AQUATIC FROG, native to Australia, can swallow infant and tadpole cane toads without any apparent ill effects?not bad, considering a grown cane toad can kill a dog in 15 minutes
...Pullman's young-adult trilogy His Dark Materials. In a world in which Madonna writes children's books and hip grownup film critics put Shrek on their 10 Best lists, it should have come as no surprise that a musical for little kids called A Year with Frog and Toad wound up on Broadway last year--and even got a Tony nomination for Best Musical...