>Like all the best protection rackets, these accidents rarely have witnesses;
>only once have the researchers seen a cuckoo destroy a magpie's nest. But
>they have built up an impressive body of circumstantial evidence.

Slade Gorton would call this "bad science" (think about the new requirements
for determining Marbled Murrelet nesting habitat, which replaces the
old protocol which relied on building an impressive body of circumstantial
evidence).

Sorry...I'm in a bad mood in regard to Congress at the moment...

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>