11.   A coalition of environmental groups settled a year-old lawsuit Thursday charging that federal protection of Florida manatees was too lax.

12.   After the Brookline shootings, Stern said, federal protection was extended to two other clinics, whose locations he declined to identify for security reasons.

13.   But about half of those are covered by business self-insurance plans with federal protection from lawsuits.

14.   But federal protection begot more wrangling.

15.   But in time he became influential as both photographer and conservationist, successfully urging that federal protection be extended to more of the region he loved.

16.   But MOMA had neglected to obtain the formal federal protection for the Austrian collection that would have prevented any level of government from foiling return of the paintings.

17.   But some clinic owners say it is unrealistic to rely entirely on federal protection.

18.   But, he contended, enough of the original genetic material lives on in the Maine fish to warrant federal protection.

19.   California has also been a leader in using lawsuits to force federal protection.

20.   Conservationists said federal protection for the California spotted owl is overdue.