http://www.cynthiabarnes.com/Cyn/articles A small sampling of my work. Hard copies can be mailed to your editorial offices, upon request. http://www.cynthiabarnes.com/Cyn/articles/Entries/2010/6/1_National_Geographic.html 0a177865-bbbd-443a-ae39-cd57db655973 Tue, 1 Jun 2010 14:03:56 -0600 No small find at the Big Eddy.<br/><br/><br/>Hard by the Sac River in southwestern Missouri, Neal Lopinot and his dirt- smeared team are engaged in an urgent rescue attempt. All are sharply aware that time is running short, that the victim they are toiling to save can't hold out for much longer. That victim, Big Eddy, is a trove of North American prehistory, named after a large natural whirlpool that swirls nearby. The threat: A hydroelectric dam six miles (nine kilometers) upstream at Stockton that spews some three million gallons of water a minute when generating at full tilt, turning the sluggish Sac into a sluiceway and eroding the riverbank at a rate of four feet a year. "We're losing the site faster than we can excavate it," laments Lopinot. "In less than 15 years, maybe even sooner, Big Eddy will be gone."<br/><br/>Full text at <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0510/resources_cre.html">http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0510/resources_cre.html</a> EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy http://www.cynthiabarnes.com/Cyn/articles 5