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Science: Shark sinks teeth into conservation efforts

Science: Shark sinks teeth into conservation efforts(3)

Apr 22, 2008

A cartoon shark and its illustrator hope to draw attention to dwindling shark populations, and they’re recruiting readers to help.

Science: Shark sinks teeth into conservation efforts

Science: Shipwrecks reveal history’s secrets

The RMS Titanic and 1,500 of her passengers rest at the bottom of the icy Atlantic. Once touted as unsinkable, ocean-dwelling bacteria now eat away at its iron wreckage.

Science: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s …

EVANSWOOD — It was a recent Monday night, and Joyce Stocker was cruising down Moss Street after a long day’s work. Just when she thought her Monday couldn’t get any longer, it appeared in the southeastern sky.

Tech Tuesday: See no evil, republish no evil?

WOODSIDE PARK — To leash or not to leash a dog. Residents debated it for days on the civic association’s listserv. But when a regional newspaper picked up the story — and the community’s online dialog — the debate became one of privacy.


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