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Arguing that crocodile numbers are booming, Katter has called for a cull. "They're wandering into people's backyards," he says. State Environment Minister Andrew McNamara says numbers have increased only slightly since the ban on hunting was imposed, and that for safety's sake, animals over six-foot-six long are relocated out of urban areas. Queensland crocodile expert Gordon Grigg says culling is futile: "You can never be sure you've got them all, and it risks giving people a false sense of security...
...Good luck with that. Here in Old Blighty, the birthplace of English, the dictionary's compilers face passionate resistance from language lovers who believe that any cull reduces the richness and variety that make language powerful - and leaves us all a bit dumber. "Newspapers are often accused of setting their reading level for 12-year-olds," one opponent wrote on an online message board. "Spare us dictionaries that do the same...
...decreasing home sales. Or rising gas prices. Or maybe just because it's still spring. Whatever the reason, there are several grassroots movements afoot that have average Joes trying to pare down their possessions and do more living with less stuff. The 100 Thing Challenge is a pledge to cull your belongings to a mere 100 items. If that seems too daunting, there's the 365 Days of Decluttering Challenge, which has people promising to donate, sell or toss one unused item from their homes everyday for - you guessed it - a year. (See pictures of the world's longest yard...
...applications represents one more aspect of your life that can live on Facebook, and the more you can do there, the more important and valuable the site becomes. (And, as MySpace recently discovered, the more tempting it is to hackers.) Search engines help you find things, but everything they cull from is public. A social network affords something more: access to the personal lives and tastes of the people in your circle, or at least as much as they're willing to share. For that reason, explains Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook's vice president of product marketing, "I see Facebook...
Elleholm thinks Aresa will have a reliable land-mine-detecting thale-cress in about two years and hopes to apply similar biotech to detect larger, unexploded ordnance and eventually to cull antibodies from plants. But first it will focus on land mines. If it succeeds, Aresa will make thale-cress a weed that will be welcomed...