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Date: May 25, 2011
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HONGHU, Hubei - About 18,000 summer birds have been forced to leave their stopover at Honghu Lake early because of the persistent drought in Central China.
"Normally, about 20,000 summer birds come to the lake in early April and fly away by the end of August," said Wen Feng, head of marsh protection of the Honghu Wetland Nature Reserve.
"But this year, most of the birds have come and gone. Only about 2,000 to 3,000 birds have stayed," Wen said.
He added that the dried lake has affected spawning and killed water plants, fish and clams - all primary food for birds.
"Migratory birds are very sensitive to the marsh environment. The fewer birds that stay, the worse the environment is."
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Date: May 9, 2011
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BUFFALO, N.Y. – Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says emails and a signed document that form the basis of a New York man's lawsuit claiming part ownership of the social networking phenomenon are fakes.
Zuckerberg's statements were included in papers filed Thursday by his attorneys in federal court in Buffalo. The attorneys want expedited access to the original materials, copies of which were filed with Paul Ceglia's lawsuit, and to examine Ceglia's computers and electronic media.
"The contract is a cut-and-paste job, the emails are complete fabrications and this entire lawsuit is a fraud," attorneys for Zuckerberg and his Palo Alto, Calif.-based company wrote. "Zuckerberg has now declared under oath that he did not sign the contract attached to Ceglia's complaint and that he did not write or receive any of the purported emails."
Ceglia's lawsuit, first brought in 2010 and refiled in April, relies largely on a two-page "work for hire" contract bearing the names of both men.
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