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Fringe Fried Endangered Species
The giant panda, Tasmanian tiger, and hundreds of other endangered species are living on the fringes of their historical habitats rather than in their centers, according to a study published yesterday in the journal Nature. Researchers from the University of Oklahoma and Fort Hayes State University in Kansas studied the geographical ranges of 245 endangered […]
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Another Contaminated New Jersey
German retailers pulled Nike soccer jerseys from store shelves yesterday because of a televised report that the shirts contained a potentially harmful fungicide. On Tuesday, a business news show reported that it had tested randomly chosen consumer products for traces of chemicals and found that souvenir jerseys made by Nike contained tributyltin, which is used […]
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Hoisin Charge Here?
China has decided to press forward with a huge project to transport water over a great distance from the south of the country to the north. The plan, originally conceived by Mao Zedong, would probably require an engineering effort similar in magnitude to the one now underway for the country’s Three Gorges Dam, which is […]
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Smog Gonnit
Mexico City’s air was cleaner last year than at any previous time in the 1990s as a result of stricter enforcement of pollution laws, according to a government study. Authorities took emergency measures like keeping kids inside during recess only five days last year, compared with 37 days in 1998 and 62 days in 1990, […]
