Thursday, June 10, 2004

Top News Article | Reuters.com

Reuters is is reporting on an effort by environmentalists to get lights on skyscrapers turned off to avoid distracting birds.
Chicago leads U.S. efforts to reduce migration casualties. About 30 major city-center buildings turn out their lights.
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New York lags Chicago in its efforts to turn out lights, although its bird death toll has declined since the Sept. 11, 2001 destruction of the twin towers, said Rebekah Creshkoff, founder of Project Safe Flight bird-protection group.
Oddly enough, or perhaps not, Ms. Creshkoff in discussing the bird death toll after September 11th has no apparent opinion about the human death toll on September 11th.

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