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A scientist's aim: Save the bees

Marla Spivak, a superstar researcher at the University of Minnesota, has become one of the country's leading champions for bees. Now she's fighting for their survival.

By Josephine Marcotty

January 15, 2015 at 8:14PM
(Dave Braunger/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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about the writer

Josephine Marcotty

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Josephine Marcotty has covered the environment in Minnesota for eight years, with expertise in water quality, agriculture, critters and mining. Prior to that she was a medical reporter, with an emphasis on mental illness, transplant medicine and reproductive health care.

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