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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1531326-1,00.html">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1531326-1,00.html</a>
That’s the link to the current Time Magazine article titled
“Mercury Rising.” I guess the good news is that the subject
got three pages, with graphics.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#003300'>….the
game changer was the recent study of <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Northeastern
songbirds</span></b>…..Netting 178 species of songbirds and testing their
blood and feathers, Evers found that all of them were indeed contaminated, some
in concentrations exceeding 0.1 parts per million. That doesn't sound like
much, but it's a lot higher than it ought to be, and it's surely on the rise.
….. What's more, if the birds are contaminated, so are other animals that
eat the same diet--not to mention predators that eat the birds. Says Evers:
"It creeps up the food chain and continues to biomagnify as it goes."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#003300'>The
wetlands study darkened the picture further. ….. "There's mercury
that's been accumulating since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution,"
….. "During droughts, you get a meter-thick carpet of dry peat in
some places, and all you need then is a match. Lightning usually provides
that."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#003300'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Randi
Doeker<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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w:st="on"><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'>Chicago</span></font></st1:City></st1:place><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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