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A review of the birdcentric novel “Accidentals” (the title of which is in the plural for a reason)

10,000 Birds

In Gaines’ first novel Carbon Dreams (2001) the science (there, geology) tended to overwhelm the story, but in Accidentals, she incorporates ornithology and microbiology skillfully into a well-woven whole. Her narrator is Gabriel, 23, raised in Northern California by an American father and a Uruguayan mother.

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Why Is the Federal Government Awarding Contracts to a Company That Was Involved in Smuggling Primates?

Critter News

Aside from the moral issues involved in animal experimentation, why are US taxpayer dollars going to a company started by a man who went to jail for smuggling, and then transferred control of the company to his wife and mother? Biggest contracts: $232,500 with Army for Live Animals, Not Raised for Food. Signed on 2005-08-12.

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Manfred Kuehn on Kant's Cosmopolitanism

Animal Ethics

His transcendental idealism, at least in morality, ultimately is a political idealism, in which attaining the greatest good is not something that will be accomplished in another world but is a task to be accomplished on this earth. Note 2 from KBJ: Kant denied moral status to nonhuman animals. One does not answer problems.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that irradiating half the meat and poultry consumed in the United States would mean 900,000 fewer cases of food-borne illness and 350 fewer deaths each year. Coli Shows Flaws in Ground Beef Inspection System ” (front page, Oct. 4): Your article about E.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

10,000 Birds

Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Finca Hamadryas. 09 Jan 2016. Swainson’s Flycatcher – Myiarchus swainsoni. Parque do Ibirapuera. 14 Mar 2016. Panama Flycatcher – Myiarchus panamensis. 24 Apr 2016. Ash-throated Flycatcher – Myiarchus cinerascens. La Paz, Mexico. 23 Apr 2016. 06 Mar 2016. Greensboro Bog Garden.

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Combined Beats’ List – August

10,000 Birds

Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Finca Hamadryas. 09 Jan 2016. Swainson’s Flycatcher – Myiarchus swainsoni. Parque do Ibirapuera. 14 Mar 2016. Panama Flycatcher – Myiarchus panamensis. 24 Apr 2016. Ash-throated Flycatcher – Myiarchus cinerascens. La Paz, Mexico. 23 Apr 2016. Western Australia. 30 Jan 2016.

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