I enjoyed the article about the Amazonian river dolphins, but was confused that the article never mentioned the one species of river dolphin that I've actually seen: the Mekhong River dolphin, or Irawaddy River dolphin. Was this an oversight, or is there a scientific reason to exclude these beautiful animals from that group?

Thank you,

Joel

Regarding your opening statement in the world hunger article about corn from so many gallons of ethanol feeding a man for a year....do you care what impressions uninformed people get? You surely know that field corn is ANIMAL feed and after the ethanol production takes place there remains a large percentage of the food value in the by-products- it does not just disappear. Also, a man could not thrive (or even survive) on just those 8 bushels of field corn for a year any more than he could the grass clippings from an equal acreage production from a yard (about 1/20th of an acre). And if you are simply referring to the fact that the acreage could be used to grow human food instead of corn, why are you picking on corn fields?.. why not the myriad of other things that take up land that provide no food benefit at all? why not mention the millions of acres covered by strip malls, developments, golf courses, etc. etc. etc. Why pick on corn? It owes no apology... it provides feed to a wholesome, nutrient dense, high quality food (poultry, pork and beef) and the amount of corn fed is determined purely by economics. If it didn't pay to feed it, we would fefinately not. And finally, you seem to use last year's high grain prices to verify large world shortages, when in fact now the prices have fallen to less that 50% of what they were, but we certainly do not have any more grain per person than we had last year. It has been proven that the high prices were obviously correlated to speculation and the run up of energy costs--TOTALLY. It seems like you wanted an article to say a certain thing so you just pushed and shoved and trimmed on reality to make it fit your objectives. Thanks for listening

The video preview of the June issue is wonderful. What a great idea! There is just enough teasing information to entice me to read this issue. The flashes of the pages and pictures are arranged in such a way that your eye is constantly moving with the images. The music too is inviting and suits the mood of NG. I also am impressed by the graphics racing in and out at the beginning and end of the video. In short, the little video is fun!