Betty and Joseph Hardy of Southampton have announced the engagement of their daughter Jennifer Hardy to Matthew Hargett, son of Lynn and Mickey Hargett of Little Rock, Arkansas. Ms. Hardy... more
Pity the poor horseshoe crab. It is, without question, a survivor almost beyond compare. Consider this: There are fossils of the creature dating back 445 million years. Dinosaurs arrived about 200 million to 250 million years ago — which means the time between us and dinosaurs is equal to the time between dinosaurs and the earliest horseshoe crabs. And they’re still here, nearly unchanged. But they finally may have met their match. The American horseshoe crab has “vulnerable” status, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The population faces a whole series of challenges, including sea-level rise, coupled ...
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on Sep 19, 2008