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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

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In 2004 – more than 20 years later – the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) had to sue EPA in order to get them to do anything about it. Kudos to this awesome group, which has changed minds, laws, and continues to raise awareness of an environmental disaster which too many people don’t even realize has been taking place.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

They would pause over them and just gaze, sometimes even raising the book towards their eyes in the vain hope that this action would allow them to see more.—more The photographs span the years 1870 to 2004. Yet, the photographs exerted an unexpected pull over readers. more than there really was to see!” (p. And remembered.

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We Interrupt Regularly Scheduled.

Animal Person

These people were certain that Haiti’s president Jean-Bertrand Aristide had been ousted by the CIA in 2004 because he proposed a minimum wage increase, like Zelaya’s. In throwing out Zelaya they are sending frightening messages to all the other presidents who are trying to raise the living standards of their people.” 1) DemocracyNow!

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