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Spring wildlife
From Newsweek’s Karen Springen: Spring is birthing season for baby animals. What should you do when you come across newborn squirrels, raccoons, and skunks under your deck or in your attic? It’s likely that their moms moved there to find a private spot to give birth.
If you can, wait until the babies are 6 to 8 weeks old. Then, rather than move the animals yourself, make their moms want to relocate by blasting rock and roll and keeping lights on, says Laura Simon, field director of urban wildlife for the Humane Society of the United States (wildneighbors.org).
Don’t assume solo babies are orphans. Mothers of bunnies and deer visit their little ones only a couple of times a day. “People will take a wild animal away from its mother without meaning to,” says Simon. Don’t feed them anything. They can’t digest cows’ milk and lettuce.
If you’re sure the babies are motherless, call your local nature center or an animal shelter to find a “wildlife rehabilitator”–a volunteer licensed by the state fish and game agency to take in injured and orphaned wild animals.
GOOD place to eat!
Please come to Boston…please, please, please (they’re in the Chicago area only right now).
Winkie?
An original Wicked Witch of the West Winkie guard costume from the 1939 film ‘The Wizard of Oz’ is shown in this publicity photo provided to Reuters March 30, 2007."two new flavors…one survives…you decide"
I would never usually go for anything with a cheese flavor in it (I hate cheese and onion chips, for example), but the “smoky” and the “BBQ” work out well. I don’t even know what the Wild White Nacho is supposed to be. So I vote for Smoky Cheddar BBQ.
25 memorable quotes
From USAToday:
1. “Let’s roll.”
Todd Beamer, Sept. 11, 2001, just before he and other passengers attacked terrorists controlling United Flight 93, which crashed in a Pennsylvania field. The White House may have been the target.
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2. “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
President Reagan, June 12, 1987, appealing to the Soviet leader to remove the Berlin Wall that divided East and West German sectors. It fell in 1989.
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3. “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”
Defense attorney Johnnie Cochran, Sept. 27, 1995, arguing that a glove used as murder evidence in the O.J. Simpson trial was too small.
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4. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”
President Clinton, Jan. 26, 1998, at a White House news conference.
5. “You’ve got mail!”
America Online, 1989. The voice, which still greets users, is El Edwards, the husband of an AOL customer service representative.
6. “Read my lips: no new taxes.”
George H.W. Bush, Aug. 18, 1988, accepting the GOP presidential nomination in New Orleans. A tax hike later in his presidency was a factor in his loss for re-election.
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7. “Obviously a major malfunction.”
Steve Nesbitt, NASA public affairs officer, Jan. 28, 1986, shortly after the space shuttle Challenger exploded.
8. “How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?”
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Dec. 5, 1996, interpreted as a warning that stocks were too high. Markets plunged briefly the next morning
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9. “You can’t handle the truth!”
Actor Jack Nicholson as Col. Nathan Jessup in the 1992 film A Few Good Men.
10. “I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”
Democratic vice presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen, debating Republican Dan Quayle in Omaha on Oct. 5, 1988.
11. “Just say no.”
Nancy Reagan’s anti-drug campaign slogan, 1983.
12. “I want to focus on my salad.”
Martha Stewart, June 25, 2002, on CBS’ The Early Show, when questioned about the probe into her stock dealings.
13. “Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?”
Former Labor secretary Raymond Donovan, May 25, 1987, after being acquitted of fraud charges.
14. “Keep hope alive.”
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, July 19, 1988, in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta.
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15. “I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.”
President Bush, Sept. 14, 2001, addressing police, firefighters and rescue workers at Ground Zero.
16. “My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.”
Vice President Cheney, March 16, 2003, on NBC’s Meet the Press, describing how Iraqis will react when U.S. troops topple Saddam Hussein.
17. “One more thing.”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, 1999. He uses the phrase before unveiling products such as the iMac and iPod at computer shows.
18. “Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up. “
Former North Carolina State basketball coach Jim Valvano, March 4, 1993, accepting an ESPY Award shortly before he died of cancer.
19. “It takes a village to raise a child.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton in her 1996 book, borrowing from an African proverb.
20. “I’d run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl.”
Russ Grimm, 1984, a Washington Redskin who ended his career as a player with three Super Bowl rings.
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21. “You gotta fight for your right to party. “
The Beastie Boys, 1986, in the song Fight For Your Right.
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22. “People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?”
Rodney King, May 1, 1992, after the acquittal of Los Angeles police in his beating trial sparked widespread rioting.
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23. “Where’s the beef?”
Wendy’s TV commercial, 1984, later used by Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale to ridicule opponent Gary Hart.
24. “I can’t deny the fact that you like me! Right now, you like me!”
Sally Field, March 25, 1985,. accepting the Best Actress Oscar for Places in the Heart.
25. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
Jerry Seinfeld, Feb. 11, 1993, in the episode The Outing, later used whenever a gay character was discussed on the show.
