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  1. Animals

    Cheap Taste? Bowerbirds go for bargain decor

    When male spotted bowerbirds collect sticks and other doodads to wow females, they don't search for the rare showpiece but go for the cheap trinket.

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  2. 9/11’s Fatal Road Toll: Terror attacks presaged rise in U.S. car deaths

    Federal data indicate that fear of flying after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks caused a second toll of lives on U.S. roads in the last three months of that year.

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  3. Earth

    Bogged Down: Ancient peat may be missing methane source

    Massive peat bogs in Russia may have been a major source of atmospheric methane just after the end of the last ice age.