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Nov 2004Ratio of Americans killed by lightning since January 2002 to those killed by terrorism : 3:2
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National Weather Service (Silver Spring, Md.)/U.S. Department of State Counterterrorism Office (Washington)

May 2004Percentage of the 13,129 varieties of dirt in the United States that are endangered : 4
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Ronald Amundson, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley

Mar 2004Amount earmarked by the House last December to create an indoor rain forest in Iowa : $50,000,000
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Iowa Environmental/Educational Project (Des Moines)

September 25, 2006 China announced plans to ship thornless red roses to markets worldwide.
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New York Times

August 11, 2006For the first time in over 60 years, a corpse flower bloomed in New York City.
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Chron.com

July 26, 2004The European Space Agency found that rogue waves more than 25 meters high are not uncommon and may have sunk more than 200 supertankers over the past 20 years.
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Sydney Morning Herald

June 4, 2004The Senate voted to permit the reclassification of some high-level nuclear waste so that the Energy Department can leave the waste in leaky shallow tanks.
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New York Times

March 3, 2004 NASA scientists announced that Mars was once wet enough to support life.
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Associated Press

January 8, 2004The popularity of herbal medicines, environmentalists warned, threatens to wipe out thousands of wild medicinal plant species.
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New Scientist

December 5, 2003 Sudden oak death was confirmed in four trees in England.
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New Scientist

August 21, 2001Astrophysicists found evidence that the speed of light and other laws of nature might have changed over time.
July 24, 2001A spokesman for Egypt's Human Rights Center for the Assistance of Prisoners declared, “No one has the right to be queer, because this goes against nature.”
April 24, 2001Some experts were worried about tourists who pay to swim with sharks, which are lured by fish heads and such; others welcomed the chance to study natural selection at work.
January 2, 2001 Fishermen in the Galápagos Islands were resisting new fishing limits, arguing for a strict policy of natural selection in Ecuador's conservation policies.
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    AUGUST 2008

    THE WRECKING CREW
    How a Gang of Right-Wing Con Men Destroyed Washington and Made a Killing
    By Thomas Frank

    THE MANDARINS
    American Foreign Policy, Brought to You by China
    By Ken Silverstein

    JACK
    A story by Marilynne Robinson

    Also: WILLIAM H. GASS on Henry James