• The nine-year-old site is best known for spawning the hacktivist and trolling network Anonymous, and all manner of Internet memes and elements of Internet culture.

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  • Such flow levels were a reproductive cue for spawning fish and produced sandbars that served as vital nesting grounds for shorebirds, particularly the least tern and piping plover.

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  • The Purdue team, assisted by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Geological Survey, collected water samples containing Asian carp eggs in 2011 from sections of the river that were much shallower and narrower than had been considered necessary for spawning, Goforth said.

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  • The case has made national and international headlines for weeks, spawning outrage over the lack of women's safety in India and calls to toughen the country's rape and sexual assault laws.

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  • Results vary based on a user's prowess with the tool, but the founder envisions the service as a fertile spawning ground for memes.

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  • That sale was the spawning ground for "rex disease" according to Richard Polsky, author of Boneheads, a new book about the fossil market.

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  • Orange roughys are found on, or around, mineral-rich seamounts that often form coral and act as feeding and spawning hubs for a variety of marine life.

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  • But she noted that with the spill moving toward land, the impact on Louisiana's coastline, which contains some 40% of the nation's wetlands and spawning grounds for countless fish and birds, had to be considered.

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  • He also led a crusade to free up another huge chunk of spectrum, culling it from military airspace and idle swaths to create the same sort of anything-goes turf that served as the spawning grounds for Wi-Fi.

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  • The trial quickly snowballed into a made-for-the-tabloids drama, garnering daily coverage from cable news networks and spawning a virtual cottage industry for talk shows, legal experts and even Arias, who used her notoriety to sell artwork she made in jail.

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  • For the past 18 months, Mr O'Neal has led the firm's vast stockbroking arm, the traditional spawning-ground for its leaders.

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  • The Saudis do bear responsibility, however, for the world-wide and ongoing promotion of the teachings of the radical and virulently anti-American Islamist sect known as Wahabbism that is spawning new recruits for such terrorist operations.

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  • The Saudis do bear responsibility, however, for the world-wide -- and ongoing -- promotion of the teachings of the radical and virulently anti-American Islamist sect known as Wahabbism that is spawning new recruits for such terrorist operations.

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  • The song, sung so slowly that the syllables start spawning syllables, lasts for a few seconds less than five minutes.

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  • Removing the dam restored 17 miles of prime spawning and rearing habitat for migratory fish, and re-established numerous rapids for more recreation.

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  • Having identified the main Loligo nursery grounds, they recommended postponing the opening of the fishing season in these areas for a few months after summer spawning.

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  • The bust, the result of a seven-year sting operation, happened in the Chesapeake Bay, the primary spawning and nursery ground for striped bass on the east coast.

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  • That no contender hails from the country's southeast, historically the spawning ground of South Korean presidents, is also an advantage for Lee.

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  • But every day, hundreds of ASF volunteers battle for the species on the ground, rebuilding and restoring river and fish-spawning habitat in the Atlantic Canada provinces and Maine.

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  • David Kennedy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who has taught at Stanford for more than forty years, credits the university with helping needy students and spawning talent in engineering and business, but he worries that many students uncritically incorporate the excesses of Silicon Valley, and that there are not nearly enough students devoted to the liberal arts and to the idea of pure learning.

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  • He shared a Nobel Prize with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor and later went on to refine transistor technology, spawning the modern age of semiconductors and of Silicon Valley.

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  • Immediately, salmon spawning began to recover and according to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, for some varieties is now at the highest levels since at least 1950, as measured in naturally produced adults.

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  • But dams, diversions and recent drought have combined to push the spawning salmon population in the Klamath well below the 35, 000-fish threshold deemed necessary for the river to maintain a sustainable salmon population.

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  • Since the character first appeared in 2005, there have been at least 46 "Fancy Nancy" books from publisher HarperCollins, with over 20 million in print, spawning a number of popular dolls and toys, and becoming a must-have birthday party theme for all the fanciest little girls.

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  • For instance, military demand went off a cliff in the 1990s, just as the dot.com boom was spawning unprecedented prosperity in the commercial sector.

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