"Americans are living longer because the air they breathe is getting cleaner, a new study suggests. The average drop in pollution seen across 51 metropolitan areas between 1980 and 2000 appears to have added nearly five more months to people's lives, according to a study published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.Read more... )

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSEIC37493020080303?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=92&pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/04/09/manatee.classification.ap/index.html

But sadly, these gentle giants are still not kosher.

Bush declares a huge ecological preserve near Hawaii. Not what I would have expected from the president. If this turns out to be real, he deserves a certain amount of credit. Not enough to make up for torture, incompetent wartime leadership, imprisonment without trial, warrantless wiretapping, and catering to bigotry. But still, something