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Tara would not let giddy hopes drag them onto a rock that would spell the end for the project, and the Arrallin species.
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Harmon's face slowly animated - joy sweeping in to replace stern concentration.
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"Tarrin says the planet's a freaking gemstone!
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Thriving with life, large and small forms, no buildings of any kind, hydrocarbons, metals, and a stable atmosphere.
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He's not even bringing them back through for a face to face briefing.
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He says we should come through now, immediately, before the probe is reported late."
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"Harmon, tell that good for nothing son of a beta to get his hindquarters through the gate and back here NOW, or I'll open fire on him when we come back through."
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When it comes to the oceans, people take ... and take ... and take -- without ever giving.
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I trust, however, that you will give back.
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A tax-deductible gift from you now of less than a nickel a day can bring you into the ranks of the most influential and effective marine conservation organization operating today.
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At a price nearly half off the regular membership dues, you will receive a host of member benefits (more on these in a moment)_and, far more important the satisfaction of actually doing something to improve the ocean world we pass on to our children.
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The Center for Marine Conservation can put your membership donation to work right away to protect ocean wildlife, preserve marine habitats and prevent the marine pollution that poisons our watery planet.
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Your nickel a day can, when it joins the stream of other member donations, help stop water pollution at its source ... protect sea turtle nesting beaches from development ... and defend seals, dolphins, and other ocean wildlife from the threat of entanglement and drowning in fishing nets and marine debris.
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Will your gift really help?
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Definitely yes!
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over, please
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I hope you enjoy using them as you correspond with your friends and family and help us spread the word to protect ocean wildlife.
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You’ll be part of a team that’s already
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convinced Mitsubishi and the Mexican government to abandon plans to build a massive salt production facility on the shores of critical calving and breeding grounds for gray whales.
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won a major court victory that closed thousands of square miles to U.S. longline fishing because of its threat to the survival of Pacific leatherback sea turtles.
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helped create National Marine Sanctuaries critical to the survival of marine wildlife -- from endangered manatees in the Florida Keys, to humpback whales off New England’s Stellwagen Bank, to sea otters in California’s Monterey Bay.
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These are prime examples of hard fought victories and critical efforts that are working to improve the health of our marine environment.
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But our programs need your backing.
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You can help us spread our message to protect ocean wildlife by using the enclosed labels on all your correspondence.
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Also, take a moment to review the practical tips on the back of the form -- share them with your family and friends --and put them into action today!
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And won’t you also please make a tax-deductible contribution of just $15 --or more if you are able -- to help save the dolphins, whales, sea turtles, and other amazing marine creatures who so desperately need support from all of us these days!
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I hope, too, that they remind you just how much danger these beautiful marine species and their ocean habitats are in right now!
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At the same time, you’ll receive CMC’s benefit-packed New Member Welcome Kit ... a free subscription to our exciting full-color quarterly newsletter, Marine Conservation News ... more steps you can take to protect our oceans regular legislative updates and action alerts ... and an official membership card.
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Dear Friend,
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Please let me hear from you now.
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Sincerely
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P.S. Of course, your personalized labels are a gift, yours to keep whether or not you choose to join us.
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Isn’t that really worth at least a nickel a day?
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P.P.S. And, if you are able to send a gift of $15 or more, as a special new member bonus, I’ll send you our exclusive dolphin tote bag.
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Even today, after years of public outrage, dolphins continue to die in tuna fisheries of other countries and are still being cruelly and often illegally killed by gillnets and harpoons.
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The enclosed set of name and address labels is a FREE GIFT to you from America’s leader in protecting our increasingly vulnerable ocean planet -- the Center for Marine Conservation.
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CENTER FOR MARINE CONSERVATION
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And now, growing numbers of dolphins with malignant tumors and high levels of toxic chemicals in their tissues are washing onto U.S. beaches.
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The cause - undetermined, but the suspected culprit is pollution poisoning our oceans with toxic chemicals and sewage.
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"Sarah McGrath, the editor at Riverhead who worked with Ms. Seltzer for three years on the book, said she was stunned to discover that the author had lied."
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And apparently, they all go to work in publishing.
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But seriously, you may remember an article last summer that appered in TimeOut New York about matters of race in publishing.
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(My post on the subject here .)
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“Invariably,”
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“a black-themed book will come up for consideration, and there won’t be anyone of color to put in an opinion, or there’ll be one, who shouldn’t bear the burden alone. So we all pretend we’re experts. Maybe I’m the only one who’s embarrassed by that.”
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This has been a bad week for liars.
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So we all pretend we’re experts.
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Maybe I’m the only one who’s embarrassed by that.”
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The end result of such roundtables, one can only fear, could be that the only books depicting people of color that get published are those that do not challenge white assumptions.
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I can't help but wonder if Ms. Seltzer's book with all it's far-fetched, tales-from-the-urban-jungle flair, would have passed the smell test were it read by a more diverse panel of editors.
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First the holocaust survivor who said she was literally raised by wolves turns out to be just a regular, if depressed, person.
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Comment #1, by carleen
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Guess I'm a sucker too.
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March 3, 2008 11:20 PM
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Comment #2, by Michael Fischer
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Um, wow.
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That is ridiculous.
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March 3, 2008 11:43 PM
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Comment #3, by Sarah Schulman
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I wonder why they didn't present their books as novels.
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March 4, 2008 01:39 PM
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Comment #4, by Sarah Schulman
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I wonder why they didn't present their books as novels.
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March 4, 2008 01:41 PM
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Now, Margaret Seltzer, the author of Love and Consequences , the highly acclaimed "memoir" about her life as a half Native American/half White gang banger, has been been explosed as a fraud.
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Tayari's Blog: There's A Sucker Born Every Minute
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"memoir"
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In the vividly told book, Ms. Seltzer wrote about her African-American foster brothers, Terrell and Taye, who joined the Bloods gang when they were 11 and 13.
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Posted by Tayari Jones on March 3, 2008 10:57 PM
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She chronicled her experiences making drug deliveries for gang leaders at age 13 and how she was given her first gun as a birthday present when she was 14.
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Ms. Seltzer told The Times last week, “One of the first things I did once I started making drug money was to buy a burial plot.”
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“One of the first things I did once I started making drug money was to buy a burial plot.”
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It's like a satire of a satire.
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This is my favorite line in the whole NYT article: "Sarah McGrath, the editor at Riverhead who worked with Ms. Seltzer for three years on the book, said she was stunned to discover that the author had lied."
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'ninja'
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Ninja Warrior is one of the most popular shows on G4.
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We can put Pirates away now after the 3rd Pirates of the Caribbean flick, right?
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No, actually, if we've learned anything it's that genre memes just go back underground ( Pirates for adults [NSFW]You get the point0.
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These characters are like Zombies (pun intended), they just keep coming back to life.
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