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"Perfectly combining education and camp--a giant, inflatable shark currently sits on top of Discovery's headquarters--it was an immediate hit with audiences ... Shark Week has also helped clear up many of the fears associated with the animal and misconceptions about why they sometimes attack humans ... [It] is also a powerful platform to raise awareness about the dangers sharks face from commercial fishing."

--7/26/10

Clyde Haberman

Setting the record straight in the New York Times about a planned Muslim cultural center near Ground Zero:

"That it may even be called a mosque is debatable. It is designed as a multi-use complex with a space set aside for prayer--no minarets, no muezzin calls to prayer ... It would seem to qualify as a mosque about as much as a chapel in a Roman Catholic hospital qualifies as a church."

--7/26/10

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