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Barring unforeseen environmental advances, the problems of the power project's ecological effects and the sale's impact upon donors will remain when the final court case is decided. Barring an unforeseen change of heart, Consolidated Edison will still want its white elephant project on the Hudson River. And the...
Eve: Let's see. Adam was out naming animals that morning. He was working on the mammals and was doing pretty well until all of a sudden he got stuck at hippopotamus. To tell you the truth, I didn't blame the guy. All along he had been coming up...
After years of relative safety from poachers, Kenya's elephants are once again threatened by ruthless ivory hunters. Strict bans on exports of ivory from nearby Zaire and Tanzania have made Kenya's pachyderms prime targets for poachers eager to supply a financially stable product used for curio...
Shortly after excavators began blasting into the ground to prepare the way for construction of a new 28-story bank building in downtown Nashville two years ago, a sharp-eyed workman spotted something strange in the limestone debris-an ivory-colored, banana-shaped object that looked like a miniature elephant...
About the size of a modern lion, the sabertooth, or Smilodon (from the Greek words for "knife" and "tooth"), had powerful jaws equipped with two long fangs that it could use like daggers to rip into large prey, notably the poky, plant-eating mastodons that also inhabited the American continent...