“They can be clumsy mothers. We’ve got videotapes of the mothers knocking the eggs out of the nest and sending them tumbling down the cliff.” Videos also show the mothers jumping up and down on their eggs.
September 28, 1995
News & Stories
Bad news from the Tijuana estuary
A question about the Reader puzzle answered
Dear Matthew Alice: My pa sez, if ya read it in the Reader, it gots ta be true. So I have enclosed the following example of mathematics [list of winners to Reader puzzle #869], and …
September 28, 1995
Olivia Newton-John's grandfather Max Born was friend of Albert Einstein
Dear Matthew Alice: Was Olivia Newton-]ohn ever kissed by Albert Einstein? — Milton F., Normal Heights Usually I don’t much care which way the facts fall. True, false; you’re right, you’re wrong — as long …
September 28, 1995
Local Manzanita tribe wants to cut itself off from Washington
The Sycuan, Barona, and Viejas casinos spent about $10,000 each to send local leaders to Washington. “Since the Sycuan [hand] has only 100 members,” the spokesman said, “we can afford to send other members.”
September 28, 1995