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- Updated avian family tree surprises
When a falcon swoops from the sky to seize its fleeing prey, no one would mistake the sleek predator for a gaudy parrot. Yet the secret kinship of falcons and parrots is one of many surprises in a landmark genetic study of 169 bird species being published by researchers.
- Eureka!
- Questions answered
Can you see DNA under a microscope?
- DEAR ABBY
Local hospice might be able to aid family in dealing with grief
“Sad Dad in Arizona” (May 2) wrote that he was concerned because his teenage son didn't want to attend his mother's funeral and preferred to remember her “the way she was.”
- NIELSENS
The TV joke's on the regular folks
The prime-time “stars” of this summer are regular folks willing to humiliate themselves on national television.
- HINTS FROM HELOISE
This trick will save the dryer, by gum
Help! Chewing gum melted all over the inside of my clothes dryer. What can I do to get rid of it? I don't want to have to buy a new dryer.
- TELL ME ABOUT IT CAROLYN HAX
Love for mentally ill spouse not enough
While I'm away, I'm letting you give the advice. The following are readers' opinions on issues they've seen in the column.
- Did giant meteor smash Mars?
The lopsided shape of Mars may well be a result of a cataclysmic impact of a Pluto-size meteor billions of years ago, three teams of scientists report. That would suggest that the lowlands of Mars' northern hemisphere are a single gigantic impact crater – the largest crater in the solar system.
- STARGAZER DENNIS MAMMANA
Best in show? It's Mars a bit longer
For the past several months, we have enjoyed the celestial antics of the red planet, Mars.
- Researchers warn of decline in sharks, disrupted ecosystems
The Mediterranean Sea, says Francesco Ferretti, is “a very dangerous place for a shark.”
So dangerous that in the past two centuries, the shark population there has plummeted by more than 97 percent, according to a study by the graduate student, two colleagues at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and an Italian researcher.
- TV: What's On
- Horoscope
- For the record
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