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Two .22-caliber bullets hit Kennedy in the back and a third entered behind his right ear, fragmenting in his brain.

For decades, biologists have studied how cities affect wildlife by altering food supplies, fragmenting habitats and polluting the environment.

Both young women were born during the civil war and grew up witnessing their country fragmenting.

But she said it can be “a double-edged sword” because adapting the memories to new places might risk fragmenting or de-contextualizing them in the future.

Highways, rivers, railroads and human influence fragmenting the habitat make it unlikely the bears would naturally repopulate the North Cascades.