Extinction Warning Highlights Human Toll on Biodiversity
The Smithsonian News Service reports that 5 to 10 million species exist with up to 1 million vanishing by century's end. Experts blame human population growth and habitat disruption, urging preservation, conservation, and a triage strategy to save biodiversity.
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Norman Myers
Africa
Theodore H. Reed
National Zoo
Washington, D.C
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Elliot Norse
Center For Environmental Education
Earth
Myers
Challinor
Orga
Ulysses Seal
University of Minnesota
East Africa
Aiken Hosts New Bicycle Criterium May Twenty Second
Promoter Sissy Brodie announces a first time criterium in Aiken to be raced on Colleton Avenue starting at 12 30 p m with entry fees 2 for novices and medals in three age groups. Riders from Atlanta West Virginia and Greenville are expected. The event aims to draw spectators with a spectator friendly fast loop through downtown only a single afternoon.
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Aiken
Sissy
Wade) Brodie
Brodie
Martin
Mississippi
Wisconsin
Southern Pines
North Carolina
Southeast
Atlanta
West Virginia
Colleton Avenue
Dressing To A Different Drummer
A narrator reflects on a family with a child who never fits standard clothes. The child’s clothes hang past the knees and seem weighted while his limbs remain out of proportion to typical sizes. The piece highlights the unique challenges of dressing this one child.
Front row mishap in class photo reveals tucked shirt irony
Erma Bombeck humorously observes how the front row always features the photographed child who tries to look put together yet fails. The column notes common fashion missteps from creased trousers to a shirttail visible through an open fly, all captured in a single school snapshot.
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Smithsonian News Service
Erma Bombeck
Nately
Mek
Kalmia Plaza
Aiken County
U.S
Hampton Ave
U.S. 1
S.C
Odell Weeks Center
Whiskey Road
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