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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But most important, they are beginning to starve, because the sea ice they depend on for hunting seals, their main food, is melting at a very rapid rate because of global warming. 7, 2008 The writer is director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment , Harvard Medical School. Eric Chivian Boston, Jan.

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Lost Among the Birds: A Review of a Big Year Book

10,000 Birds

There’s Doug Gochfeld, “an exceptional birder from New York” whose “short, dark hair was slowly overtaking his face,” one of Hayward’s guides on St. Paul’s Island. He is clinically depressed, and his description of how that disease altered his life is affecting and courageous. Neil Hayward.

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