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" I don't like names that are clever or made-up sounding. "

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" Wyoming, home to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons, is also the country's largest coal producer and one of its largest gas drillers. Two-thirds of the state's gas-drilling rigs are on public lands in the increasingly industrialized Greater Green River Basin. "

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" I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon. "

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" The question of one versus two species of African elephants isn't about settling an arcane DNA argument; it's about life or death for these majestic, extraordinary creatures. "

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