IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Snow-mageddon backlash in NJ; Flood-ageddon escalates in Australia Neww year, new rules for big polluters; New GOP majority plans new assault on EPA... PLUS: Gee, that's not apocalyptic at all: 1000s of birds, 1000s of fish drop dead in Arkansas...
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If you don't know what that is, it's a game in which people's aquarium fish drop money and you must catch it.
There comes a time, of course, when the prospect of wind-up whales, garish mermaids, and squirting rubber fish dropping on to you becomes less attractive.
The ancient, sleazy-looking Marabou stork in his funereal dress waits in the shallows under the trees for fledglings that fall out of the twig platforms above or for fish dropped by the parents during feeding.
—Rebecca Mansour, an aide for Palin's SarahPAC "I'm just waiting for the D.C. media to link Sarah Palin to birds, crabs and fish dropping dead around the planet because she has an outdoor reality show and enjoys hunting".
The adult, with insufficient preening oil to waterproof its plumage, never willingly alights on the water, but it is unbelievably fast and skillful in the air, soaring effortlessly and often diving to recover falling fish dropped aloft by panic-stricken boobies or other seabirds.
"I'm just waiting for the D.C. media to link Sarah Palin to birds, crabs and fish dropping dead around the planet because she has an outdoor reality show and enjoys hunting, because the two are about as connected," said Nick Ayers, the departing executive director of the Republican Governors Association, who has at times given Ms. Palin advice.
Now a study has identified what appears to be a universal threshold for danger: when the biomass of so-called forage fish drops below one-third of its maximum, seabirds of many species start to have fewer chicks.
All bird species showed the same response, the team reports in the 23 December issue of Science: the number of fledglings per breeding pair started to decline when the abundance of forage fish dropped below one-third of the maximum observed amount.
Diefenbaker suggested to the jury that the silence on the line which had, he contended, swallowed the words "at Cedarside" might have been caused by a fish dropped on a snow-covered line by a bird and claimed to have evidence of a previous occurrence.
