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Straws in the wind: To the mystification of beach-goers, the U.S. government is proposing regulations to protect sharks from depletion by fishermen.
Straws in the wind : America now has more than 5 million illegal immigrants . The New York Times reports that as environmental concerns have waned, disposable diapers are driving cloth diapers into extinction.
Straws in the wind: The New York Times reports that Santeria , the West Indian religion notorious for animal sacrifice, is gaining American adherents and coming out of the closet.
Anyone whose faith depends upon mathematical letter sequencing in War and Peace or any other inspired writing is grasping at straws.
Those were dark times for journalists, and I fear that some of them went grasping at straws.)