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Buff-breasted Sandpiper Overload (and Other Fall Birding Highlights in Costa Rica)

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If you were trying to pick out Blackburnian Warblers and other migrants from the September foliage in Central Park, the shores of Ohio, or any other sites in the north a few weeks ago, a fair number of those birds have now made it to Costa Rica. A typical scene at Punta Morales. One of the hundreds of Western Sandpipers at Chomes.

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On Project Treadstone and Welfare, OED-Style

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97/1 The welfare of the child religious, moral, and social, as well as physical and pecuniaryis the paramount consideration for the court. b. The home of ‘the welfare policy’ is the city of Dayton, Ohio. Synne 3928 yf ou euer haddyst sorow oer kare Of y neghëburs welfare. c1369 CHAUCER Dethe Blaunche (Fairf.) 1718 Free-thinker No.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Doesn’t he realize that he does not have to engage in this voluntary activity, which causes moral conflict for himself and suffering for the animals? Jules L Garel Columbus, Ohio, July 31, 2008 Mr. Kristof is attuned to issues of human suffering and injustice. Government animal rights regulations may help.

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NYT Opens the Door to the Humane Myth

Animal Person

Let's summarize and deconstruct: After a botched execution, Ohio adopted a single-drug formula to replace the three-drug cocktail previously used to kill people. We went from an abolitionist angle--that executing people is morally wrong--to the death penalty needs to be repealed to eliminate problems during the execution.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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She lives at Indigo Hill, an 80-acre wildlife sanctuary in Appalachian Ohio with her husband, Bill Thompson III, their children Phoebe and Liam, and their Boston terrier, Chet Baker. Ohio has tracked two families of their state-endangered breeding sandhill cranes and found them to have wintered over in Tennessee in 2010.

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Some Chinese Pheasants

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I feel that thanking your own baby for moral support in the acknowledgment section of a Ph.D. This turned out to be nice for one researcher who thus could do the research for her Ph.D. thesis – as she did – is a bit much though. Examples: California. Connecticut. New Jersey. North Dakota. Rhode Island. South Dakota. Washington.