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...depicting Eden and the Tower of Babel and learn that all life on Earth was created at one stroke about 6,000 years ago (no mention of evolution), that dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time, and that the terrible lizards perished under human pressure and habitat loss...
...sight of it was enough to make one outdoorsman cry and Uncle Sam shell out $10 million to protect its habitat. Dubbed the Holy Grail of bird watching, the ivory-billed woodpecker was for decades thought to be extinct, but a team of scientists last week reported seven confirmed sightings within the past 15 months in Arkansas' Cache River National Wildlife Refuge. Researchers warned, however, that "we cannot rule out the possibility that all of our fleeting encounters involved the same bird." Meanwhile, Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton urged bird watchers not to flock to the refuge and "love...
...some ways, the 1998 bleaching epidemic was almost as shocking as the damage inflicted by the tsunami, for the reefs are more than passive bulwarks against the sea; they are also the beating heart of the country's economy. The reefs provide habitat for the baitfish used by the local tuna fishery, and their underwater beauty lures hordes of foreign tourists. "If your heart stops beating, can you survive?" asks Ahmed Shaheed, the Maldives' chief government spokesman...
...first real spring break that I’d had—we’d always flown and been gone somewhere for about ten days,” Sabin said. “[Junior year] I actually had a spring break and went to Tennessee with Habitat for Humanity...
Sitting in the right field bleachers on Opening Night at Yankee Stadium, wearing four shirts and a heavy coat underneath my Trot Nixon jersey, I was able to observe Yankee fans in their natural, undisturbed habitat...