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BOSTON -- A rare adult blue whale was spotted over the weekend 15 miles off Gloucester during a research cruise.

Researchers at the Whale Center of New England said that they were startled to find the whale on Sunday
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]]> Hansen et al.“If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted,” the paper states, “CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm [parts per million] to at most 350 ppm”
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]]> Barack Obama is keeping a strong Gallup Poll lead over John McCain. Obama leads 50-43 percent in Sunday's results. So much for the "Palin bump" from the vice presidential debate
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]]> The PA State Senate is poised to vote on House Bill 2525 to impose stricter laws against dog abuse. If you are a PA resident, please use the form below to send an email to all 50 senators urging them to pass the bill.
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]]> Here's a contest to raise money for animal charities. It's free, easy, fast and fun. Win a prize while helping an animal rescue charity. Go to site to see how.
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]]> EESA greatly expands Treasury and Federal Reserve powers...Ignored is their criminal fraud. The harmful fallout to many millions, and the fact that $700 billion (now $850 billion) is a down payment with trillions more to come...Mainstreet beware! 10/6/08
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]]> One of the world's smallest seals - the Caspian - has joined a growing list of mammal species in danger of extinction.
October 2008. Scientists from the University of Leeds have documented the disastrous decline of the seal - a species found only in the
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]]> Sen. Barack Obama on Sunday charged that Sen. John McCain's campaign is launching "Swift boat-style attacks" on him instead of addressing the country's problems.
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]]> It's time to shed light on the way U.S. companies in charge of oil, gas, and mining operations in developing countries are spending their money, according to testimony at two Capitol Hill hearings Wednesday.
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]]> In Nature these giant Snakes swallow Antelope, big Cats, Deer a whole.
Now a Tiger Pyhton has attacked it's Keeper.
The Snake already had the Keepers Face in it's Mouth.
It happened on Reptilienzoo Uhldingen (Baden-Wurttemberg): Renate K. boss cleans j
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]]> ASPEN, Colorado - Tucked into a crack on a shoulder of Mount Sopris lives a bat colony so unique that experts from around the region have come to study it.

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]]> As a spreading financial crisis threatens to deepen the economic recession in the United States, the news of an unprecedented $700-billion bailout package reverberated through the corridors of the United Nations last week as over 100 world leaders gathere
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]]> Burma's military leaders have signaled the start of a new political era with the release of 9,002 prisoners, including several key political detainees.
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]]> We are excited to inform you that we are currently putting together efforts to bring a caravan of work crews that will be converging from across the country to support residents
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]]> Almost 50,000 cane toads have been destroyed within two weeks on a Northern Territory cattle station near the WA border, says a group fighting the pests’ spread westwards.

WA-based Stop the Toad Foundation said about 25 volunteers working for the group
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]]> A Los Angeles Police Department source, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the case was under investigation, said the gunman apparently had financial problems and killed his mother, wife and three children before taking his own life.
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]]> UDHAGAMANDALAM (TAMIL NADU): Tiger population in 30 Tiger reserves in the country have dwindled to 1,411 at present from the 1,800 in 1972, according to statistics. The country had 40,000 tigers in 1900, statistics released by CPR Environmental Education
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]]> WAUSAU, Wis. — A northern Wisconsin farmer who has watched a growing pack of wolves harass his sheep and kill one can’t believe the animals are back on the federal endangered species list.

‘‘All it means is the wolves win,’’ said Merrill Rosenwinkel of
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]]> Two Amur tigers have been transported from Edinburgh Zoo to a new enclosure at the Highland Wildlife Park, near Kingussie.

The pair named Yuri and Sasha have previously reared six cubs.

Edinburgh Zoo said the wild population was in its healthiest
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]]> Green Gadget...
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]]> Bailing out criminal bankers and rewarding fraudsters with public funds.Fleece the treasury to reward criminals.Money now entering the vaults of the nations biggest banks including the Bank of China with no intentions of recycling this money.
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]]> Dead Celebrities are always a fascinating subject to many, and this celebrity art created using actual fonts deserves praise.
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]]> She's a Killer Queen,
Gunpowder, gelatine,
Dynamite with a laser beam,
Guaranteed to blow your mind,
Anytime,.. 'Let them eat cake' she says
Just like Marie Antoinette ...


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]]> Once upon a time, the US government closed the doors to every bank in the nation. The year was 1933 and it was called a "bank holiday."Here's what it looked and sounded like seventy-five years ago.

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]]> McCain, R-Ariz., handily defeated Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., 68 percent to 23 percent in a voluntary survey of 4,293 active-duty...
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]]> The Wall St Crash of 1929 is popularly remembered for stories of bankrupt investors throwing themselves to their deaths.
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]]> Maasai herdsmen in Kenya have turned to an age-old contraceptive device, the "olor", to protect their precious goat herds from an ongoing drought.

The olor is made from cowhide or a square piece of plastic, and is tied around the belly of the male goa
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]]> We can't avoid stains as much as we try, but we can avoid the toxic chemicals that are used in most stain removers.
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]]> A restaurant in Japan has some unusual waiting staff on its books - two macaque monkeys.

Yatchan and Fukuchan serve customers hot towels and drinks, and are given soya beans as tips.

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]]> The mode of transport could best be described as basic.
But these eight young orangutans can hardly complain - as the purpose of their trip is to secure their survival.
Orphaned by Man's folly, they are unable to rely on their parents to teach them the
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]]> If You Give Up, They Give Up!!!
Still we have time.. wake up and save the planet earth!.. Impresionante Video! I will share with my all Care2 friends...
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]]> This video needs to be seen by everyone in America. Yes, I know, its 10 minutes. But its 10 minutes that anyone with a 401k, Pension or IRA should be willing to spend. Send it around, then keep checking at http://fedupusa.org
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]]> SALT LAKE CITY: Rattlesnakes are not to be trifled with, but if you are trying to collect the sound of every creature in the West that slithers, hops, flies or flops, distance is not a luxury you can afford."You get yourself in some strange situations," s
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]]> A WA woman who rescued 25,000 pets across the nation has been nominated to win the Young Woman of the Year Awards.

Michelle Williamson created the charity website PetRescue.com.au to link stray and homeless pets with families across Australia.

Sinc
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]]> “I talked to 125 of the households in my neighborhood,” said Bonnie Davis of Lafayette, Tennessee, “and only one of those households said they thought the hatchery was a good idea."

Would you?
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]]> Video about McCain's central role in the savings and loan scandal of the late '80s and early '90s, + criminal investigation, and how that has precipitated the current economic meltdown. This man doesn't care about main street and never did- he sold out!
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]]> The parlous state of the US economy has dramatically narrowed John McCain's options for reaching the White House, leaving the Republican candidate campaigning hard in just four states won by the Democrats in 2004.
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]]> A TEENAGE girl in the Northern Territory woke when a snake that had slithered into her bed and wrapped itself around her neck bit her on the arm.

Ashlee Findlay, 16, who is afraid of snakes, spiders and centipedes, spent two hours at a hospital after t
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]]> 43-YEAR-OLD man has been rushed to a Sydney hospital after he was bitten on the fingertip by a brown snake.

Ambulance crews were called to an address on Annangrove Rd, at Annangrove, in the city's north-west, after the man was bitten about 2.30pm (AED
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]]> A Kansas City, Mo., middle school teacher was suspended for insubordination after he posted a video of his students chanting Barack Obama slogans on YouTube.
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]]> The Supreme Court's onetime wide majority in favor of abortion rights has shrunk to one: Justice John Paul Stevens, who is 88. Now the decision's fate may depend on who becomes the next president. Realize what is on the line this NOV and vote carefully.
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]]> When McCain/Palin say "gotcha journalism," what they're really trying to do, is to demonize journalism itself -- to de-legitimize asking tough questions, and following up with more tough questions when the answers are mealy-mouth evasions -
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]]> Surrounded and programmed by the lobbyists he once despised, the man who once effortlessly straddled the aisle and spoke from the heart now carefully hews to a prompter-read, soulless far-right agenda.


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]]> ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin says she's an open book regarding an abuse-of-power investigation. Apparently her staff doesn't feel the same way.
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