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...better ring than "1,875 square miles of environmentally critical ecosystem"--and donations perk up. Chalk that up to the power of being concrete. The Texas department of transportation casts Dallas Cowboys and Houston Astros in testosterone-soaked ads telling drivers "Don't mess with Texas," and roadside litter drops 29% in a year. Consider it a score for an emotional appeal to identity--a way of getting litterbugs to believe that real men don't throw beer cans out the window...
Desultory frames of grass, statues, a parking meter, and a parking lot litter the video with overwhelming feelings of loneliness and desolation. At the end, we hear Blunt coo about being “so hollow” and we see Barton in her bed alone as well. The suggested affair has possibly come to a close, leaving her just as stranded as her former lover. The only thing that we’re sure of in the end, and indeed one of the few sure things in life, is that James Blunt...
...bullet, an outboard motor. But about one-quarter of last year's fatalities have been traced to a pair of protozoan parasites, Toxoplasma gondii and Sarcocystis neurona, that are known to breed in cats and opossums. Could sea otters be dying because California cat owners are flushing used litter down the toilet...
State legislators were sufficiently convinced of the threat to pass a bill--signed into law last week by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger--that raises the maximum fine for harming a sea otter to $25,000 and requires that all cat litter sold in California carry a warning label advising cat owners not to dump their pet's droppings into toilets or storm drains...
...litter is only a small part of the problem. Thorny-headed worms dropped into the ocean by seabirds are known to be killing otters, as are toxic algae blooms triggered by urea, a key ingredient in fertilizer. And sea otters, because they feed on shellfish that tend to accumulate whatever floats their way, are particularly susceptible to PCBS and other man-made pollutants...