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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 5:02 AM

The Poisons Around Us

The Center for Public Integrity has recently released two great investigations that show how consumers and workers are being exposed to toxic hazards. "Perils of the New Pesticidies" by M.B. Pell and Jim Morris reveals that the number of reported human
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 5:24 AM

Thinking Outside the Box (or Going Ape)

Yesterday we featured a story about gorillas. Today we want to give equal time to orangutans.   At first glance, it seemed like a simple story. A baby orangutan battered by his mother in a Colorado zoo was moved to a surrogate mother in the Milwaukee
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Monday, July 14, 2008 6:43 AM

Gorilla Murder Mystery

"Who Murdered the Virunga Gorillas?" by writer Mark Jenkins and photographer Brent Stirton in the July edition of National Geographic is a fascinating tale of intrigue set in the majestic mountains of central Africa. While tracking down the killers of
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 1:06 AM

Invasive Species

Two newspapers have produced noteworthy reports on non-native plants and animals that harm local environments. The Statesman Journal's ten-month series, "Invasive Species of Oregon," written by Beth Casper and Henry Miller, covers a wide range of species.
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 6:04 AM

Scenes From a Recovery

Bill Reiter, sports reporter at The Kansas City Star, visited storm-ravaged Iowa to report on the recovery efforts. The result, "Iowans Are Reclaiming Their Lives and Their Sports," uses scenes from Des Moines, Parkersburg, West Des Moines, Ames, Waterloo
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Friday, May 23, 2008 5:51 AM

Food and Water

Two recent magazine stories have done an impressive job of exploring what's happening to our food and water supplies. In the May Vanity Fair, the incomparable investigative team of Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele explain in "Monsanto's
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:59 AM

Vision Quest

In September 2006, Marquette University engineering professor Mark Polczynski challenged a team of five students as they began their senior project: Can you design a biodiesel reactor that's high tech, yet so ingeniously simple that you could imagine
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:25 AM

Trash Talk

The cologne-scented pages of the May GQ feature a wonderful story about, of all things, garbage. In "This is Paradise," Jeanne Marie Laskas describes with pungent detail the Puente Hills Landfill near Los Angeles and the philosophical men and massive
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:00 AM

Hard to Swallow

Nationwide sales of bottled water have increased nearly 50 percent in the past five years. Behind the growth are some disturbing practices. First the water must be bottled. Here, in a special report called "Water's Edge," Ivan Penn of the St. Petersburg
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:30 AM

Hurray for the Winners

We're proud to write that many of the stories we've highlighted in News Gems won National Journalism Awards last week. "Hidden Hazards: Kids at Risk" by Patricia Callahan and Maurice Possley of the Chicago Tribune took first prize in the public service
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Monday, January 21, 2008 8:30 AM

He Is Legend

It's hard to resist a good adventure story, especially when it's set in an exotic location and the objective is the stuff of legend: the last survivor of a unknown Indian tribe in Brazil. Monte Reel provides a fine example of the genre in the Washington
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 8:30 AM

Best Gems of 2007

When we sat down to create the Top 10 News Gems of 2007, we ended up with an initial list of more than 40 favorite stories. We had a hard time deciding among the many outstanding examples of journalism from magazines, broadcast outlets, Web sites and
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 9:00 AM

Approaching Absurdity

Sometimes a story is so well written that it seems to tell itself. A fine example is "Out on a Limb Over Trimming Fiasco," by columnist Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times. Lopez grabs the reader with his first sentence. Everybody's got a horror story
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 8:30 AM

Imperiled Ecosystems

Dinah Voyles Pulver, environment writer at the Daytona Beach News-Journal, is producing a finely crafted occasional series, "Our Natural Treasures: Are We Losing Our Way?" Four of the seven projected installments have appeared since January, focusing
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:30 AM

Nuclear Nastiness

The impact of the Cold War on tens of thousands of American workers is still a hot topic in the pages of the Rocky Mountain News. The newspaper's excellent "Rocky Flats and Nuclear Weapons Workers" project has investigated the long-term health effects for employees
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