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...small fish a day and deposits annually some five kilos (11 Ibs.) of guano. Steamers passing the Chincha Islands are forbidden to blow their whistles lest the birds take off, fertilizing the sea. The guanayes have a bad habit of flying low after their takeoff, and their tailfeathers brush guano off the cliffs. Señor Llosa is ringing the steep-sided islands with walls, to force the birds to gain altitude more quickly...
...composing music up to the very day of his death. . . . Fred Fisher could turn out hits as easily as he could brush his teeth. It was five operations and three years of cancer that turned my father inward to the decision that led him to end his suffering...
...pushed up the sleeves of his shirt and looked out over the crowd in the brush arbor. "I feel the power acomin' on. Thank you, Jesus, I feel the 'nointing!" He plunged his hands into the box and brought out two giant rattlers. A woman near him screamed, "Thank you, Jesus," and became rigid. A young girl cried out, "Hit's the power," and began shouting unintelligibly. Women moaned and reeled. In the hot night, the guitars thrummed...
...fishermen had camped in the Red River country near Cape Breton Highlands National Park. When they moved out, they committed the worst crime in the woodsman's book: they failed to put out their fire. From its embers sprang a blaze that soon fired the summer-dry brush nearby. Volunteers came running and quickly had the burning brush under control-or so they thought until a rising wind undid their work. Soon a white mushroom of smoke hung over Cape Breton's heartland...
...Soviet Union. Often one member of the group says, 'Why, sure, we're going to have to fight the Russians. . . .' When we try to pin down such an opinion, we rarely get satisfaction. As often as not, what we get is a knowing look and a brush-off remark." Actually, said Talk No. 55, Communist ideals "are directly opposite to the stated ideals of fascist dictatorship, and their hope is to drop the appurtenances of dictatorship in the process of democratic evolution...