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• 2012 panther deaths exceed replacement rate

  Florida panther mortality is off to another record start in 2012, with the eleventh and twelfth cats perishing last week.  Panther deaths so far this year are nearly double the birth rate from new litters and signal that shrinking habitat may be pushing the wide-ranging predators rapidly to extinction. Related [...]
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• Respectfully disagree with Olympia Snowe

  “One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America’s electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other… The great challenge is to create a system that gives our elected officials reasons to look past [...]
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• The ocean is home to some strange things

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• Is Purell making you sick?

  Declining microbial biodiversity may be contributing to the rise of asthma, allergies, and other chronic inflammatory diseases among people living in cities worldwide, a Finnish study suggests. Emerging evidence indicates that commensal microbes inhabiting the skin, airway, and gut protect against inflammatory disorders. So, in english… all those handi-wipes, anti-microbial [...]
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