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“When the female comes back, he’s going to have a lot of explaining to do.”

Biologist Brian Latta, who helped move peregrine falcon eggs to a safer location from a precariously perched nest on a bridge in San Francisco, on the plight of the male falcon guarding the nest in his partner’s absence (MSNBC.com, 30 March)

“Google’s use of old imagery appears to be doing the victims of hurricane Katrina a great injustice by airbrushing history.”

US Congressman Brad Miller, in a letter to the CEO of Google, complaining about the use of pre-Katrina satellite images on Google Earth (Boston…

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