That's the thing about shelling, really: at first, it almost seems like the sort of mundane activity you think you'd want to avoid, but it only takes finding that first perfectly preserved, harder-to-find shell to get you hooked.
CARACAS, Venezuela Venezuelala's national oil company is suspending a program that provides discounted heating oil to poor communities in the United States, as officials here struggle to find ways of preserving hard currency reserves amid a plunge in oil revenues.
A23 Cuban Exile Lobby Not Yielding The Cuban American National Foundation began reorganizing its leadership and pledged to spend "whatever it takes" to preserve hard-line United States policies toward Cuba.
The bank said it had been forced to loosen the currency regime to "preserve hard-currency reserves... and ensure the national economy's competitiveness on the international arena".
The dilemma for many Tunisians now is how the government should respond: many are proud of their break from dictatorship, but worry about how the government can crack down on terrorism while preserving hard-won freedoms.
Acanthostega was preserved in hard rock, and the fossil bones had to be dug out very slowly and carefully in a process that took several years to complete.
Micromitra burgessensis individuals are preserved on hard skeletal elements, including conspecific shells, Tubulella and frequently on the spicules of the sponge Pirania muricata, providing direct evidence of an ecological association between two species.
If the smaller dinosaurs are rarely preserved and harder to find, then surely that will give a bias towards the big ones?
What's actually much more difficult is to recognise that there are no easy paths, that there are no guarantees by which, and through which, we can preserve this hard fought-for right for the freedom of free expression".
When it comes to fossils, preserving the hard stuff is easy.
