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A Case of the Human Condition: Another Threat to Lake Michigan — Asian Carp

January 26, 2010 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

My Michigan friends are emailing me about the Asian carp threatening to enter Lake Michigan and the other Great Lakes from the Illinois canal system. The carp would seriously endanger fish and other wildlife in the Lakes and local rivers.

Read more at www.stopasiancarp.com 

Filed Under: A Case of the Human Condition

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A Crazy-Making Crazy Quilt — Finished at Last

Sue Mary Fox quilting stitches a crazy quilt -- quilt top, batting and backing -- with her long arm sewing machine in her Berkeley, CA, studio. Photo by Barbara Newhall

In desperation I took the crazy-making crazy quilt that I’d begun–but never finished–over to Sue Mary Fox’s quilting studio in Berkeley. Read more.

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