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...flood control provided by the dam has posed other problems. Residents along the Nile's banks now endure increasing rodent populations that were previously curbed by the cyclical floods. In towns bordering the river, sewage systems that once were regularly flushed out by the flooding and subsequent receding of the river have become badly clogged. The most serious criticism of flood control is that the drainage of more than 1.2 million acres of the nation's rich farm land below the dam is now insufficient Much of that land has become increasingly saline, reducing agricultural productivity...
...that live on the Durrell preserve are in danger of extinction and are treated accordingly. A recently arrived spider monkey that refused to eat ("Apes are the hypochondriacs of the animal world") was finally coaxed into feasting on smoked cod roe. A sulking capybara, the world's largest rodent, was found to be partial to spaghetti. "An animal likes variety just as we do," says Durrell, a skilled cook. "If you give it a tomato day after day, it goes mad. It may want a bloody watermelon for a change...
...thought about the forest near her family's place in South Carolina and could then feel the low-key steady rushing of the wood creatures heading home. She laughed a small animal laugh; feeling the furry rodent-like animals and the dark birds, settling in for the night; fleeing to their burrows and nests. She was absorbed in the late afternoon rustling of the world's weak creatures hiding away, from night and the predators it cloaked...
...calmly climbed into an empty bed. That stunt won him a brief stint in jail-but also the eventual integration of the hospital. If his bluster was good, his bluff was even better. Perhaps Hobson's most famous episode was the great rat scare. To dramatize the rodent problem in ghetto housing, he threatened almost daily to release hundreds of rats in fashionable Georgetown. He drove through Washington's black ghetto with a cage of rats strapped to the top of his station wagon, claiming he was going to a rat rally. In truth he never had more...
...pyrophosphate and glucona delta lactone. Without such chemicals, the hot dog would lose its pink blush and turn the color of unwashed sneakers. The wiener may also contain "binders," like dried milk, cereal or starchy vegetable flour. According to Consumers Union, there can also be occasional insect parts and rodent hairs. Moreover, frankfurters are no longer a bargain. There is little honest protein in even the purest of all-beef kosher franks. Discarding fat, water, etc., what protein remains comes to more than $10 per pound. For that you can get truffles. Or 4 Ibs. of filet mignon...