An academic board has largely cleared Dr. Michael E. Mann of misconduct arising from the unauthorized release of more than 1,000 e-mail messages.
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For centuries it has been demonised as a symbol of death and foreboding, driven to the lonely edges of the land by persecuting humans who grew to fear its ebony form among them. Yet the evil mythology that surrounds the raven is now being debunked by science and the reputation of the cronking gloom bird of the popular imagination restored.
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