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Article: Signs lend hope for the right whale's recovery Record births, and ship collisions drop
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- March 18, 2009
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Cornelia Dean The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
03-18-2009
Signs lend hope for the right whale's recovery Record births, and ship collisions drop
Byline: Cornelia Dean The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 3
Section: NEWS
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Georgia --
The biologists had been in the plane for hours, flying back and forth over the calm ocean. They had seen dolphins, leatherback turtles, a flock of water birds called gannets and even a basking shark - but not what they were looking for.
Then Millie Brower, who was peering with intense concentration through a bubblelike window fitted into the plane's fuselage, announced "nine o'clock, about a mile off." The plane ...