Sunday, October 26, 2008

Scientists dismayed by vanishing of 7 whales

Seven Puget Sound killer whales are missing and feared dead in what could be the biggest decline among the sound's orcas in nearly a decade, say scientists who carefully track the endangered animals.

"This is a disaster," Ken Balcomb, a senior scientist at the Center for Whale Research on San Juan Island, said Friday. "The population drop is worse than the stock market."


I don't see the problem. Simply ban the words "population drop." After all, aren't they "upsetting" and carry "negative connotations"?

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