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Once I had caught the toads, I tied a string around their bellies and let them go. The string was attached to a spool, which I fastened in the ground with a nail. The toads hopped off and I returned in the mornings, following the track left by the string, to find their homes and record an average home range...
...Azerbaijanis living in Iran. On the last day of 1989 they struck. A mob of some 7,500 tore up boundary markers and pulled down border posts and watchtowers. Similar attacks over the next two days spread along 500 miles of the border, crippling the communications network in a string of towns from Zangelan to the Lenkoran region on the Caspian Sea. Thousands of Soviet Azerbaijanis gathered on the banks of the Araks River, the natural divide between the Soviet Union and Iran, set up loudspeakers and urged their Iranian kinsmen to join in a crusade for a unified homeland...
Pity the poor postalworker, however hard that may be for the millions who have stood in line for half an hour staring at the wanted flyers, only to have a gum-snapping clerk reject their package because it fails to comply with official wrapping regulations ("No string; paper tape only. Next!"). Attracted to their positions by good pay, generous benefits, job security and a predictable, not to say slow, pace, today's postalworkers are being dragged | against their will into the 21st century by the anthem of the Age of Fax: get a move...
...allowed our second-string people to swim in some of the events," Costin-Scalise said. "If we got in trouble, we could have put our faster swimmers...
...second-string wrestlers didn't let beginners nerves or inexperience get in their way. They put mind and will together to come out first class...