I used "exacerbate" entirely wrongly in my recent posting on Suburban
fledglings. The word means "make worse" and, for some bizarre reason, I
stuck it in when I should have said alleviate, or make better. I
apologize. Either I will have to spend more time working on these postings
or should stop reading them when I receive them! ;-)

Dennis Paulson, Director phone 206-756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax 206-756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416