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...single (King Tut). He played to arenas of 20,000 people. As David Letterman once noted, "I think that's a record for a stand-up comedian in peacetime." Saturday Night Live's audience jumped by a million viewers when he was on. His phrases "Well, excuuuuse me!" and "wild and crazy guys" became schoolyard mantras. Steve Martin was the comic as rock star. And then he wasn't. He stopped cold in 1981 to concentrate on movies and never went back to stand-up comedy...
Here we supposedly have the last stand of the last Wild West, the place and ethos that were buried in America a century ago: a celluloid fiction, reinvented with kangaroos. Australia, largest of islands or smallest of continents, does something to compensate for that loss, or so you think. In the bush, men are men and women must be grateful. And don't Australians all feel the bush at their back, amplifying their memories, shaping their values...
...lower .020. “They pulled their passing together, which kept their offense in system,” Mahon said. “They are really good when they are in system.” The first-to-15 fifth game was an exclamation point to an already wild match. The Crimson came back from a 11-5 deficit to take a 15-14 lead, one point away from escaping with a win. But despite three match points for Harvard, Cornell battled back once again, taking the game and the match on a pair of Crimson attack errors. Despite...
Another concern with donated game meat, the Humane Society says, is the risk to human health. Unlike farm-raised meat, which undergoes a federal government-controlled inspection process before it can be sold, meat from wild animals may end up on a plate with little regulation - increasing the risk of contamination. "Because goose and deer and other suburban animals feed on lawns and flowers that are treated with pesticides, meat from those animals could be unfit for human consumption," Markarian says...
...farm, Redgrave Park, is a free-range facility situated near a wetlands that is a refuge for geese, ducks and other wild birds. These birds, along with some 3 million poultry on farms within 10 km of the outbreak, are currently under surveillance by vets from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Britain's farm agency...