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...Bush Administration, while aware of the complaints, does not seem to want to get involved. (Supportkids' CEO, Casey Hoffman, worked on Bush's transition team.) "If a family chooses to engage a private collection firm, parents ought to have that option, so long as the agreement is clear up front," says Wade Horn, Assistant Secretary for Children and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services. But some critics of the private sector urge the Administration to do more. "Here we have an industry where some of the companies, by almost any measure, are alleged to be doing...
...Natural History. Their mission: to assess the health of the park's somewhat trampled woodland ecosystem in order to better preserve it. The creatures they collected were sorted and sent to various taxonomists for positive ID, which is how this one ended up in the hands of Richard Hoffman, curator of invertebrates at the Virginia Museum of Natural History...
...When Hoffman took a close look, he knew he was dealing with an exotic species, and so he sent it packing to centipede experts in Italy, who named it Nannarrup hoffmani in his honor. The new centipede's closest relatives are found in East Asia, and Hoffman believes it may have made its way to the Big Apple in something as ordinary as potting soil...
...science of taxonomy has fallen since its heyday in the 19th century. The urge to classify the world's flora and fauna, which filled the great natural-history museums like New York City's American Museum of Natural History and Washington's Smithsonian Institution, has been eclipsed according to Hoffman by a preoccupation with molecular biology. "It's a sad situation," he says. "We're coasting on the glamour of biodiversity but losing the ability to identify the creatures on this planet." Even the ones in a big city park...
...They're totally mindless killing machines." RICHARD L. HOFFMAN, entomologist, talking about centipedes after the recent discovery of an entirely new species in Central Park...