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WESTPORT, Mass. 鈥?Danielle Perry is working to save one of the best natural defenses to climate change鈥?the salt marsh. Perry is a coastal resilience specialist for the Mass Audubon Society who has spent years working to rehabilitate endangered coastal ecosystems. Were expecting to get a lot more storms
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NEW YORK AP 鈥?Americans held back on spending during the start of the holiday shopping season, a troubling sign for retailers and the state of the U.S. economy. U.S. retail sales fell a seasonally adjusted 1.1% in November, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. It was the biggest drop in seven months, and a steeper decline than Wall Street analysts had expected. The Commerce Department on Wednesday also revised Octobers report, saying that retail sales fell 0.1% that month, instead of rising 0.3% as it previously reported. Retailers had tried
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