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...balance between corals and their competitors in many ways. Consider the erosion that accompanies deforestation and agriculture. No longer restrained by tree roots, tons of soil laden with nitrogen and phosphate washes into rivers and then sweeps into the sea, forming a muddy plume that may be hundreds of miles long. As this nutrient-rich water flows over a reef, it stimulates the growth of all kinds of algae--including the microscopic diatoms and dinoflagellates that nourish such reef animals as the crown-of-thorns starfish. In recent years hordes of these coral-devouring starfish have infested Australia...
...town has one drug store, one hardware store, a little pizza shop, a liquor store and a pub, located about half a mile from Craig's house...
...literary agent who persuaded Stephen King to publish The Green Mile in serialization [BOOKS, Sept. 2], I need to set the record straight about the cost of the book. You say that at the end of buying the six installments, a reader will have shelled out a total of $18.94 for "what would have cost around $6.99 if it had been a normal, one-volume, mass-market paperback." The retail prices for new books from authors like King are as high as $27.95 in hard cover and $7.99 in paperback. To the millions of King fans who would...
...copy center to make the required copies for the Rhodes and Marshall scholarships, which were due at 10 a.m., Kaden was pulled over by Cambridge Police while going 55 miles per hour in a 25 mile per hour zone of Mass...
...RYUN Republican--Kansas 2nd Ryun, a former world-record holder in the mile, outran John Frieden by a comfortable 7% margin...