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Bats' built-in echolocation system is so finely tuned that it can detect insects' footsteps, changes in air currents caused by vibrating insect wings, even the ripple in a pond as a minnow's fin breaks the surface...
...gave him a $20 bill, Kirstein remembers "the papery cash, its tough fibrous thinness inlaid with bits of red and green silk." The dreamy young man did not take much interest in academics, but he passed Harvard's entrance exam anyway. Once enrolled, he writes, "I felt like a minnow with the freedom to swim in whomever's wake I wanted...
...fishing for trout is an undemocratic sport. It takes intelligence and skill to learn, a healthy income to afford and plenty of free time to practice. Though bait fishermen scoff that snobs use flies as an excuse to keep worm and minnow goo off their hands, fly-fishermen approach the sport with an almost mystical reverence. Perhaps that's because learning to catch trout is a complex process bordering on religion. Yet it is one of the fastest-growing sports in the U.S., now embraced by nearly 500,000 fisherpeople...
...year ago, Governor Dukakis was just another Democratic minnow adrift in the broad sea of presidential politics. A year from now, President Dukakis may be completing his first 100 days in the White House. But for that to happen, he must begin to flesh out how he would use that period to be more than just the nation's Governor...
Defense attorneys have argued that by making Walker its star witness, the prosecution is "using the shark to catch the minnow." Whitworth's defense may rest on Walker's testimony that the master spy never informed his friend that the stolen secrets were destined for the Soviets. In his final testimony, however, Walker said that "common sense" should have told Whitworth just who the buyer...