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Posted Thu Aug 7 2008: from McClatchy Newspapers:
Shrinking African lake imperils wildlife http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1218122127
 "...Once among the largest lakes in the world — at some 9,000 square miles, roughly the size of New Jersey — Lake Chad has been decimated over the past four decades by rising temperatures, diminishing rainfall and a growing population that's using more water than ever before. Today, estimated at less than 2 percent of its original size, the lake's surface would barely cover Brooklyn and Manhattan."
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Sounds like this lake is hanging by a chad -- I mean hanging by a thread!

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