Archives » Friday, August 10, 2007
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Stryker McGuire
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Aug 10, 2007 04:07 PM
Spare a thought for the gals of the Sisterhood challenge team, informed this week by email that their helmswoman was having to pull out of the charity boat race with only two weeks left before the big race. But then again, if you choose Kate Middleton to be on your team, expect that her prince -- in this case, William -- will always take precedence. This week the 25 year-old on again-off again girlfriend of Britain’s heir but one (his father, Charles) to the throne informed her pals that because of security concerns she was going to have to drop out of competing to become the first all-female team to cross the English Channel in a Chinese dragon boat. Did this mean that Wills and Kate, who famously broke up (allegedly) over media intrusion, were getting back to together?
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Melinda Liu
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Aug 10, 2007 08:56 AM
For the last few years, scientists have feared that the baiji -- a freshwater dolphin unique to China's Yangtze River -- was critically endangered. Late last year, an international team spent six weeks scouring the river for any remaining baiji. On Wednesday, they published their results: they didn't find squat, despite twice covering the dolphin's range along a1,669-kilometer channel of the Yangtze. That means that -- barring an errant baiji here or there -- the species is, for all intents and purposes, extinct. It now represents the first global extinction of any creature exceeding 100 kilograms for more than half a century.
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