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...watchers are lucky enough to spot the latter along their 2,500-mile flight from the Gulf Coast of Texas to Canada's Northwest Territories. They are secretive, and they travel in small groups. But no one in the area along Nebraska's Platte River can avoid encountering the whooper's brethren, the sandhills, which tarry for weeks in concentrations of 20,000 per mile...
...author has resurrected a historical figure, John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of cornflakes and founder of a spa for health faddists that he ran at Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1907 and 1908. As Boyle caricatures him, Kellogg was half charlatan and half believing zealot, an early whooper-up of overnourished America's chronic food fear. Rigid vegetarianism, fasting, sexual abstinence and abdominal massage were among his nostrums. But his favorite was "colonic irrigation" -- enemas administered as often as five times...
...wily AFL-CIO president, Lane Kirkland, sat down with Political Columists Jules Witcover and Jack Germond in March 1982 and floated a whooper. He felt the AFL-CIO should endorse a candidate in 1983, long before the primaries and the conventions, something the federation had never done. Kirkland, its turns out, had been brooding about the idea since 1968 and had had it on the tip of this tongue the day after Ronald Reagan was elected...
Aristotle, says Terres, unaware of migration, thought birds hibernated in winter, while Ice landers believed that the whooper swan, after nesting, flew off to the moon. Closer at hand, songbirds poke crushed ants, rich in formic acid, into their coats to remove para sites; the common blue jay is obeyed by fleeing deer when he pipes his warnings; and the red-eyed vireo can give 22,000 encores a day of his song...
...presidential flyway these days, but whooping cranes are birds of a different feather. Else why did Jimmy Carter look so dubious last week when presented with a miniature replica of that endangered species by the National Wildlife Federation as "Conservationist of the Year"? Whatever he felt about the whooper, Carter appreciated the award, which recognized his support for environmental protection and recreation. The President boasted of his prowess as "hunter, fisherman, canoeist, hiker, camper and lately cross-country skier...