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  1. Earth

    Global warming heats up nursery of hurricanes

    Sea-surface temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean reached record highs last year.

    By Sid Perkins
  2. Earth

    Alaskan coral beds get new protection

    To protect cold-water corals, huge areas of Alaskan waters will be off limits to trawls and other fishing gear that typically scrape the seafloor.

    By Janet Raloff
  3. Humans

    Letters from the July 22, 2006, issue of Science News

    First, count all the lawyers The study in “Legal Debate: Assumptions on medical malpractice called into question” (SN: 5/13/06, p. 291) fails to address the more disturbing issue: Most of the insurance money (apparently) goes to lawyers (both sides), and very little to those injured.