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UC Santa Cruz Researcher Finds Albatross Tragedynew

Myra Finkelstein has discovered that lead paint chips from an abandoned U.S. Navy base on the Midway Atoll are poisoning thousands of albatross chicks each year. Her latest study shows that the disease droopwing is causing a substantive drop in the Laysan albatross population worldwide.
Good Times Santa Cruz  |  Curtis Cartier  |  02-03-2010  |  Animal Issues

Dead Wrong: Independence of Coroner's Rulings Questionednew

Defense attorneys complain that Cuyahoga County Coroner Elizabeth Balraj listens too much to police and prosecutors in making her decisions, ruling that some deaths are homicides even when medical evidence suggests the patients died of other causes.
Cleveland Scene  |  Kevin Hoffman  |  09-21-2004  |  Crime & Justice

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