Seventy percent habitat loss is staggering for a slow-growing, long-lived, slow-reproducing species. It is not an animal that bounces back easily.

We certainly aren't going to stop all habitat loss, that's a given. Habitat loss will continue as a result of urbanization in Florida. That is something my agency does not control.

Twenty tortoises is a small population. These [20] tortoises would not protect the survival of gopher tortoises in Florida, but protecting them would preserve the species in Hillsborough County.

The study's findings of slowed bone loss and the reduction in hip fractures for some groups suggest a role for these supplements in preventing hip fracture in generally healthy postmenopausal women and support the current Surgeon General's recommendations for these nutrients.

Something's gotta give. The emotional cost of two parents working is debilitating - I'd rather take the financial loss and simplify than live with the emotional battering, upheaval and stress.

I don't view them as a loss of time in the classroom; I view them as instruction.