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there is hope. Elephant cured of drug addiction
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Article The four-year-old animal, called Xiguang, received methadone injections for a year at five times the human dosage, state media said. It was illegally captured by traders in 2005 in south-west China. When police arrested the traders and freed the elephant, it was found to be suffering from withdrawal symptoms. The elephant’s eyes kept streaming […]
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here kitty kitty, oh crap that is a raccoon
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From the WTF department. OMAHA — Humane society workers have found 117 cats, a raccoon and a rabbit in a north Omaha house. The discovery came Wednesday after Council Bluffs, Iowa, police caught the 54-year-old woman who lives at the house reportedly stealing cat food. Officials say she smelled like cat urine. It isn’t the […]
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Jake got a very big bone for efforts and was forgiven for every hole he dug and all the mud he tracked into the house, the Baileys said.
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Dog Plucks Boy From Platte “It was, like, over my head and I couldn’t touch,” he said. He was only a few feet away from the shore, but the river current was strong enough that it was pulling him down and under. He said his cries for help weren’t being heard by anyone, except Jake, […]
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In Toronto, cyclists form a first-of-its-kind union
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Article “I’ve been riding my bike for nearly 40 years in the city, and it’s high time we have something like a union,†Ms. Marks explained last weekend. “I don’t fly around like the youngsters. But if we were able to have better bike lanes and benefits like a union, you’d see more people out […]
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MSNBC’s Spectra, a neat way to look at news
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Spectra is a flash based (?) way to visualize current news. You can build channels and flip through stories in different ways. It is kind of neat actually.
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Iowa man charged with throwing candy at police
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Article DES MOINES, Iowa – A college student whose friend was being questioned in a hit and run found himself charged with assaulting an officer with a curious choice of weapons: M&Ms. Sean McGuire was arrested early Sunday at a convenience store after Drake University security guards noticed the colored candies falling on the ground […]
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Omaha man saves own life with at-home tracheotomy
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WOW article An Omaha man struggling to breath used a steak knife to perform an at-home tracheotomy. Steve Wilder says he thought he was going to die when he awoke one night last week and couldn’t breath. Wilder says he didn’t call 911 because he didn’t think help would arrive in time. So, the 55-year-old […]
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war and pregnant dudes, this a diff post for sure
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awwww wook at da wittle bunneh So we watched the first part of Bush’s War last night. It was a severely sobering reminder of what this administration has done. I felt ill after watching the first half, but cannot wait for the second part. I highly recommend you watch it sometime. Then a real life […]
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