Survivorship
The term "survivorship" describes the likelihood that an organism will remain alive from one time period to the next. For example, the survivorship of human males in a given...
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A stranded deaf Atlantic bottlenose dolphin delivered her calf Monday at a marine mammal rehabilitation center in the Florida Keys. The unnamed calf is approximately 42 inches long and weighs about...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
LEVEL PLAYING FIELD FOR SDF'S USE OF WEAPONS (The Daily Yomiuri
as translated from the Yomiuri Shimbun)
We believe now is the time to...
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Saudi Arabia's king personally welcomed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad upon his arrival Saturday, a rapprochement many hope will help calm sectarian tensions threatening the Middle East.King...
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Today is Sunday, Sept. 2, the 245th day of 2007. There are 120 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri,...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
SAFFRON REBELLION (The Wall Street Journal, New York)
For profiles in courage, consider the inspiring demonstrations
in Burma. On Monday,...
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Photographs by Dana LixenburgJamaal "Shyne" Barrow, 25, sits on the prisoner side of the table. He's wearing the perversely preppy L.L. Bean-esque prison issue-forest green. Correction officers ove...
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A recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that after Iraq, health care is the issue Americans most want the candidates to debate.Kaiser found that, among those with a view, Hillary Clinto...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
IN SEARCH OF ANSWERS (The New York Times, New York)
The Iraqi Parliament has finally done something that the Bush
administration, and man...
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You might be forgiven for thinking that Nathan Lane was shot out of a cannon when the curtain rises on "November," David Mamet's maniacally funny new comedy now producing waves of laughter at Broad...
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At a sprawling base set amid the wiregrass pastures of southern Alabama, the Army is teaching its next class of helicopter pilots how to avoid getting shot down when it's their turn to go to Iraq.S...
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Survivorship
Deaf Dolphin gives birth to healthy calf
