Fly halts Calif. projects
COLTON, Calif. (AP) - Southern California construction projects worth
hundreds of millions are being held up by a fly in the development. The
U.S. government has all but halted development across the sand dunes in the
desert east of Los Angeles to protect the tiny Delhi Sands flower-loving
fly - the only fly ever to make the Endangered Species List. Some people
can't believe the fuss being made over a bug. "People feel like their
community is being run by a fly. Where it can develop, when it can develop
- all dictated by a fly," said Ray Bragg, a development official in
Fontana, one of several small cities whose plans have been thwarted by the
orange-brown insect the size of a straight pin. See full story
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