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IDB America December 2004 Roger Hamilton	Finally, Some Respect How a tiny Ecuadorean archipelago came to receive perhaps more attention than it can handle.
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IDB America January 2005 Roger Hamilton	Search and Destroy in the Galapagos Inspectors battle ecological imperialism at the islands' airports and docks.
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Scientific American February 2006 Michael Shermer	It's Dogged as Does It Retracing Darwin's footsteps in the Galapagos shatters a myth but reveals how revolutions in science actually evolve
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