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  Tuesday  October 22  2002    01: 06 AM

Matters of Scale

Worldwatch

Number of species of Hawaiian birds called honeycreepers that have gone extinct...28

Number of species of honeycreepers not yet known to be threatened with extinction...3

Number of communications towers in Kansas with which bird collisions on a single cloudy night in 1998 resulted in the death of 5,000 to 10,000 lapland longspurs...1

Number of towers more than twice the height of the Kansas tower (which was 420 feet high) expected to be erected in the United States by TV stations converting to the digital format...1,000
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