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The defendants, who have been on trial since March 2006, were charged with planning to use homemade fertilizer bombs on targets including London nightclubs, trains, and the gas and power network. Some of the suspects had close links with two of the four suicide bombers who killed 52 people in London on July 7, 2005, a fact that news organizations were barred by court order from reporting until today's verdicts. The trial was the first involving what prosecutors and police described as a...

Ospreys, the only raptors that dive fully into the water for fish, were nearly wiped out in New England by our postwar use of the pesticide DDT. What are they? We were on the top deck, pulling away from Martha s Vineyard, and he was doling out cold hot dogs to his kids while gesturing with his elbow toward a light at the end of the jetty. There, standing guard at the harbor s mouth, were two nearly eagle-sized birds, their stunning black masks and 6-foot wingspans drawing appreciative...