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Observatory: Warmer Winters and Shrinking Sheep

nytimes.com
Jul. 6, 2009
On a remote Scottish island, the sheep are shrinking, and the cause appears to be the warming of winter.
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch