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The five hijackers, who seized a jet Friday, are still demanding that India release 35 Kashmiri militants, but they are no longer asking for the return of a colleague's dead body or for $200 million in ransom.
Perhaps thrown by the mind-blowing juxtaposition of economic theorist and Hollywood actress, not a single linker was able to meet Slate reader Greg Ransom's Hayek-to-Hayek challenge.
A growing discontent with the model, in addition to greater awareness of ecological interactions, however, prompted Worm and his Dalhousie University colleague Ransom Myers to question the sustainability of the single-species approach.
Here's how Ransom did it:
They say that John Ramsey's samples did not match the ransom note.