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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Stevens , the Supreme Court last year overturned a 1999 law banning depictions of animal cruelty on the grounds of overbreadth. The justices were legitimately concerned that the law could impede valid speech. To the Editor: Re “ Disgusting but Not Illegal ” (editorial, Aug. In United States v.

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eBird Profile Pages and the Power of Suggestion

10,000 Birds

If you are tracking your life list, that’s not a difficult sell for the folks running eBird from Ithaca, New York. But I had spent years in Ann Arbor attending law school at the University of Michigan, albeit before I started birding. On eBird, the District of Columbia is part of the United States but Puerto Rico is not.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

As this Newsweek article and this Washington Post article report, when Gillette boarded a flight from Burlington, Vermont to New York on Oct. As the Newsweek story indicates, 38 states have passed laws giving women the right to breastfeed in any public or private place she’d otherwise be allowed to be.

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