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Act now to save our birds
Birds have always been endowed with symbolic portent … from Chekhov and Hitchcock to Twitter. We ignore their decline at our peril....
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894EconomyThe Forests… the Forests … the Birds … the Birds
THE ODOUR was unmistakable. The smell of damp earth, of moss, of rotting logs. As a log truck passed, the scent of...
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926Environment
Bentley 45: The Bag Lady, Amy and the Pigeons
ROSIE the bag lady might have had nothing but she still managed to scrape a few coins together to buy a loaf...
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822Arts
After the crash …
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1.4KHistory
The birth of Zimbabwe …
THE “punkahwallah” was working overtime this night. Only the string quartet and the aspidistra was missing as the punkah swayed backwards and...
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716Environment
The familiar could soon vanish
Among the most astute observers of the natural world and the human place within it have been writers. It can be said...
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The Chronicle (44): Like a fox
A story of journalism, once! Number 44 in a series of short stories by Don Knowler on his journalistic life and observations...
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The Chronicle (42): Cats
“Case adjourned,” shouted the magistrate, Lord Sowerdon, banging his gavel. “And find that mouse.”DON Bentley was beginning to feel he had been...
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The Chronicle (42): Kunzea up yer khyber
It was weapons drawn if not at dawn, late morning: the carrot versus the burdekin plum. It was a conflict like no...
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The Chronicle (41): Life and death at the typeface
CRAGGY would be the way to describe him. Gnarled even. The old, retired sub-editor had come into the Chronicle looking for work...
