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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

In United States v. 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. 5, 2010 The writers are United States senators.

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eBird Profile Pages and the Power of Suggestion

10,000 Birds

Some states just seemed to taunt. 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. territories, some of which are missing entirely.