Word: vines
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Ever since the Japanese introduced the kudzu vine to America at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, the broad-leafed creeper has been a much maligned nuisance. Like some omnivorous green space monster, the irrepressible plant has spread across the Southeast, smothering everything from telephone poles to abandoned cars...
...plains, Buffalo Commons is called Poppercock and worse. At least four Governors have denounced it. Bodyguards were furnished for the Poppers this spring when they went onstage in Nebraska to further explain their idea. But the Poppers did win support from other academics, some in the plains. Vine Deloria Jr. of the University of Colorado, an Indian activist (he's a Sioux) and author (Custer Died for Your Sins), feels that such a scheme might help break the cycle of welfare and subsidy checks that have held many Indians in serfdom for decades...
...main culprits are wild boars, descendants of animals imported to North Carolina in 1912 for hunting. The boars weigh as much as 136 kg (300 lbs.), and, says park official Joe Abrell, "tear up most everything in their paths." Man is responsible as well for oriental bittersweet, a vine imported to control erosion. It is strangling trees. Says park resource specialist Keith Langdon: "Once it gets a grasp on the land, it doesn't relinquish...
Ruth Rendell has enough talent for two people, so she also writes mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine. They usually concern a crime committed long ago; this time, Gallowglass (Harmony; 272 pages; $19.95) shifts from past to present, from first person to third, like sand in an hourglass. The kidnaping of an heiress was foiled years ago; now the same man tries to commit the same crime, this time with the aid of the naive narrator. An attempt is made to bribe the woman's bodyguard; when he refuses, the malefactors kidnap his young daughter with catastrophic results...
Cianciola started the match on a high point again, pancaking Jeff Yabion to a double grape-vine for a first-period...