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    This article could leave the impression that the evolutionary significant unit (ESU) is the de facto concept employed for all listing decisions under the Endangered Species Act. In fact, the ESU has not been used in the vast majority of recent listing decisions under the act. Nor should it be. The act allows the National […]

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Busy hospitals may not be best choice

    A large number of heart surgeries done at a hospital doesn't always correlate with a low mortality rate from such operations at the facility.

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  3. Earth

    Ice-dammed lakes had cooling effect

    New computer simulations suggest that massive lakes in northern Russia—formed when an ice sheet blocked the northward flow of rivers about 90,000 years ago—significantly cooled the region's climate in summer months.