StationKeeper sends messages directly from shore to vessels. Equipment installed at participating lighthouses makes it possible to warn mariners to slow down when they're traveling through right whale habitat.
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Taking care of your garden in the fall, and differences between aggressive and invasive plants
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Visiting nurses say they don't expect to get paid as much as hospital nurses, but they want the same percentage raise. Both groups are registered nurses.
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The claims come amid a federal lawsuit in which the plaintiff says he was deprived of an education as a child in Orleans.
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The bar-tailed Godwit is a tall, long-billed sandpiper that has in recent years been crowned the champion long-distance migrant among, well, all animals, thanks to increasingly small satellite tracking devices.
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This week on The Pulse from WHYY
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The Israel Defense Forces said Sunday it responded after "terrorists" attacked troops operating in the Rafah area with gunfire and an anti-tank missile. Hamas said it was unaware of the clashes.
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France's Interior Minister, Laurent Nuñez, called the heist "a major, highly organized operation" that lasted just seven minutes. Authorities were still drawing up the value of the stolen items.
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Roman Surovtsev is like many others who were detained at their regularly scheduled ICE check-ins. What makes his case different is that his wife has marshalled a team of lawyers on his behalf.
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Safety precautions haven't caught up with enthusiasm for the sport. Researchers call for a new push for eye-ware.
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NPR's Don Gonyea plays the puzzle with Minnesota Public Radio listener Matt Walsh of St. Louis Park, Minnesota and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.