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  • If Your Appliances Are Avocado, They Probably Aren't Green NYTimes.com 5/10/08 Good advice on going green with appliances.
  • Girls, Sports and Sportsmanship well.blogs.nytimes.com 5/7/08
  • Over the Bustle of the Everyday Commute, Her Voice Has Guided the Way NYTimes.com 5/11/08
  • Part I: Hunting for a miracle, grasping at a chance AP.Google.com 5/3/08
    Part II: Straining to progress, as family challenges mount AP.Google.com 5/4/08
    Part III: 'I can't believe that it couldn't happen' TwinCities.com 5/6/08
  • Urban Farmers' Crops Go from Vacant Lot to Market NYTimes 5/7/08
  • Platypus Genome Explains Animal's Peculiar Features; Holds Clues To Evolution Of Mammals ScienceDaily.com 5/7/08
  • Concerto in the Key of G, for Grateful SFGate.com 5/7/08, plus audio recording on the page.
  • Virtuoso to play, thanks to driver who returned $4M violin SFGate.com 5/5/08
  • Idaho team readies artificial beak for wounded bald eagle AP News at Google 5/5/08
  • Doctor finds higher calling when death knocks SFGate.com 5/3/08 (but apparently doesn't know ulcers are caused by H. pylori) and Clinic gives volunteer nurse intense education SFGate.com 5/3/08
  • From a Wheelchair, a Scientist Pries Open South Korean Minds NYTimes.com 4/19/08
  • What's Making That Awful Racket? Surprisingly, It May Be Fish NYTimes.com 4/8/08 Just very cool.
  • Good Works: Monks build multimillion-dollar business and give the money away SFGate.com 3/24/08
  • When a Brain Scientist Suffers a Stroke well.blogs.nytimes.com 3/13/08
  • NZ dolphin rescues beached whales news.BBC.co.uk 3/12/08 "I don't speak whale and I don't speak dolphin," Mr Smith told the BBC, "but there was obviously something that went on because the two whales changed their attitude from being quite distressed to following the dolphin quite willingly and directly along the beach and straight out to sea."
  • Running From Despair NYTimes.com 2/16/08
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