251. The gyrfalcon, an Arctic bird of prey, has survived a close brush with extinction; its numbers are now five times greater than when the use of DDT was sharply restricted in the early 1970&aposs.

252. Three out of every four automobile owners in the United States also own a bicycle.

253. Analysts blamed May&aposs sluggish retail sales on unexciting merchandise as well as the weather, which was colder and wetter than usual in some regions, slowing sales of barbecue grills and lawn furniture.

254. Balding is much more common among White males than among males of other races.

255. The bank holds $3 billion in loans that are seriously delinquent or in such trouble that it does not expect payments to be made when they are due.

256. In two letters to the historian Tacitus, the nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius.

257. The direction in which the Earth and the other solid planets --Mercury, Venus, and Mars -- spin was determined by collisions with giant celestial bodies in the early history of the Solar System.

258. The British sociologist and activist Barbara Wootton once noted as a humorous example of income maldistribution that the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo was earning annually exactly what she then earned as director of adult education for London.

259. Five fledgling sea eagles lt their nests in western Scotland this summer, bringing to 34 the number of wild birds successfully raised since transplants from Norway began in 1975.

260. According to some economists, the July decrease in unemployment to the lowest level in two years suggests that the gradual improvement in the job market is continuing.

261. Born in Calcutta in 1940, author Bharati Mukherjee became a United States citizen in 1988; she has lived in England and Canada, and first came to the United States in 1961 to study at the Iowa Writers&apos Workshop.

262. Initiated on Columbus Day 1992, five centuries after Europeans arrived in the New World, Project SETI pledged a $100 million investment in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

263. In A.D. 391. as a result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world, later generations lost all but the lliad and Odyssey among Greek epics, most of the poetry of Pindar and Sappho, and dozens of plays by Aeschylus and Euripides.

264. Scientists believe that unlike the males of most species of moth, the male whistling moths of Nambung, Australia, call female moths to them using acoustical signals, rather than olfactory ones, and attract their mates during the day, rather than at night.

265. . Thomas Eakins&apos powerful style and his choices of subject--the advances in modern surgery, the discipline of sport, the strains of individuals in tension with society or even with themselves- were as disturbing to his own time as they are compel-ling for ours.

266. In a recent poll, 86 percent of the public favored a Clean Air Act at least as strong as n the present act.

267. Like Rousseau. Tolstoi rebelled against the unnatural complexity of human relations in modern society.

268. Ranked as one of the most important of Europe&aposs young playwrights, Franz Xaver Kroetz has written forty plays; his works--translated into over thirty languages--are produced more often than those of any other contemporary German dramatist.

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