Archive for July 6th, 2007

Friday, July 6th, 2007

Global Warming Watch 19: Skinny Whales

What’s a whale without blubber? Skinny and starving, reports The Los Angeles Times:
Scientists from Mexico to the Pacific Northwest are reporting an unusually high number of scrawny whales this year for the first time since malnourishment and disease claimed a third of the gray whale population in 1999 and 2000.
So far this year, scientists haven’t […]

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Friday, July 6th, 2007

McCain’s Iowa Challenge

My latest story in The American Prospect details the challenges facing Arizona Sen. John McCain in Iowa:
Just as Senator John Kerry’s campaign reorganized and rocketed from obscurity to victory in Iowa, the McCain campaign is predicting a Kerry like come-back. That might be possible if McCain had Kerry-like problems in Iowa, or if the G.O.P. […]

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