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BY DANIEL W. DRAKE PUBLISHER Next to our house, we keep a bird tree. It is the last pine standing out of a small grove that died mostly in the '90s. This one outlived its peers but died seven or eight years ago. Now, it is just a bare trunk with a few stubs of branches. Human visitors think we are nuts to keep it, but the bir... More ...
At the Maria Mitchell Association, women rock! Proving that point on an annual basis, the Maria Mitchell Association is handing out its Women in Science Award this year to Margaret B. Bailey, Ph.D., P.E. More ...
Dr. Tim Lepore, Medical Director of Nantucket Cottage Hospital, knows more about ticks than just about anyone. He even has a big tick embroidered above the pocket of his crisp, white lab coat. More ...
I read the other day that a school district in my own home state of Texas has taken what might be called a relatively unorthodox step in terms of classroom discipline. At schools in the Harrold Independent School District, teachers will now be allowed to carry guns. Loaded guns. While they're at w... More ... |
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