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Save our precious birds Dismiss Normal text size Credit:Illustration: Matt Golding To submit a letter to The Age, email [email protected]. Please include your home address and telephone number. Save our precious birds We applaud the efforts being made to save the critically endangered eastern bristlebird (Sunday Age, 31/1). However, in the other extreme on Victoria’s west coast, the near threatened rufous bristlebird’s habitat is under threat. An extensive ″strategic firebreak″ (vegetation) is being slashed around coastal communities, thus destroying bristlebird habitat. On discussion with the state Environment Department, I got the impression that asset protection trumps bristlebird survival. ....
Biden, once one of the nation’s youngest senators, will be its oldest president Michael Rosenwald Joe Biden, right, was once one of the youngest senators. Now, he s about to become the nation’s oldest president at 78. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images) In December 1972, not long after winning a U.S. Senate seat from one of Delaware’s oldest political hands, Joe Biden began traveling to Washington to introduce himself around town. Strapping and handsome, Biden had just turned 30, the minimum age to become a senator. Now, almost 50 years later, he is about to become the nation’s oldest president at 78. Back then, he was the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history, according to the Senate website. ....
Dorothy Jane Scott was for the most part an unassuming 32-year-old single mother who lived in Stanton, California with her 4-year-old son, Shawn. She was mostly well-liked by her co-workers and had no known enemies, so it was somewhat surprising when in 1980 she began getting a series of prank calls that ran the range between creepy to downright terrifying. Sometimes the male caller posed as a secret admirer saying that he loved her, yet on many occasions there would just be breathing or curses from the other end of the line. On other occasions there were very dire messages and threats, such as one call in which a male voice casually said “When I get you alone, I will cut you up into bits so no one will ever find you.” In another case the voice said he had left a gift for her, after which she had found a dried rose pinned to the windshield of her car. In every case it was the same man’s voice, which she seemed to recognize but could not quite place. As scary as this all was, ....