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Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, photos, protection, pets, wildlife )

Cher
- 25 minutes ago - telegraph.co.uk
Animal pictures of the week: 20 November 2009
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PETA Monkeys to NASA: Stop Radiation Tests!
Offbeat  (tags: animals, demonstration, monkeys, NASA, environment )

Cher
- 40 minutes ago - blog.peta.org
It was a cagey scene outside NASA headquarters in D.C. yesterday when our primates urged NASA to scrap its misguided $1.75 million plan to torment monkeys in radiation experiments. The demonstration was out-of-this-world spectacular, prompting NASA
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Homeless Animals Receive Special Holiday Gift
Offbeat  (tags: animals, homeless, gift, pets, protection, dogs, environment )

Cher
- 40 minutes ago - blog.peta.org
This week Windsor, North Carolina, officials cut the red ribbon that wrapped PETA's very special gift to animals in this small Southern town. For nearly a decade, PETA has been working with Windsor and other area towns to provide homeless animals in
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One Dead in Miley Cyrus Tour Bus Crash
Offbeat  (tags: transportation, crash, police, death, tour bus, news )

Lone
- 1 hour ago - people.com
tour bus transporting Miley Cyrus's crew was involved in a deadly crash outside Richmond, Va., on Friday.
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Cherokee Nation Mutual Help Home Tests Positive for Meth
Offbeat  (tags: Meth lab, cooked house, crime, dangerous )

Lone
- 1 hour ago - cherokeephoenix.org
WAGONER, Okla. - A modest brick home with blue trim sits in a nice neighborhood. A passerby could walk by and never guess that methamphetamine was cooked in the home. That was the case at a Cherokee Nation Housing Services Mutual
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'Nubs' Movie to Be Made About 'Mutt, Marine and Miracle'
Offbeat  (tags: animals, dogs, Iraq, rescued, Nubs, movie, environment )

Cher
- 1 hour ago - examiner.com
Coming soon to a theater near you: the story of Nubs, a stray dog with shorn ears who befriended Maj. Brian Dennis while Dennis was serving in Iraq. When Nubs trekked 75 miles through the freezing Iraqi desert to follow Dennis to the next camp, Dennis
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Oregon Cat First Feline Death From H1N1
Offbeat  (tags: animals, cats, H1N1, virus, death, pets, protection )

Cher
- 1 hour ago - foodconsumer.org
A 10-year old male cat has died from the H1N1 flu virus, and veterinarians are cautioning that it may be possible for cats to transmit the virus to humans, according to the Oregon Veterinary Medical Association (OVMA).
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Your Morning Adorable: Three Bumps -- Er, Siberian Tiger Cubs -- on a Log
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, tigers, cubs, zoos, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 1 hour ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Germany's Nuremberg Zoo welcomed Rangar, Khan and Domur, Siberian tiger cubs, back in August. Since Siberian tigers (also called Amur tigers) are endangered -- it's believed that only about 400 to 500 animals remain in the wild in eastern Russia and
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3 Accused of Using Craigslist to Rob People
Offbeat  (tags: police, craigslist, robbery, crime, bizarre )

Lone
- 2 hours ago - chicagobreakingnews.com
Three men are accused of using the popular Web site Craigslist to rob a number of people by luring them to alleys on the promise of selling them televisions and other items, Chicago police said
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Cheap Home-Neutering of Kamloops Cat Is Cruelty: Judge
Offbeat  (tags: AnimalCruelty, animals, pets, suffering, home-neutering, cruelty, cats, protection )

Cher
- 2 hours ago - vancouversun.com
Everyone should know that double wrapping an elastic band around a cat's testicles would cause the animal pain, a judge said Friday as he convicted a Kamloops man of cruelty
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MSNBC to Air 2 Hour Special on Animal Conservation: "100 Heartbeats"
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, extinction, television program, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 2 hours ago - planetsave.com
Every 20 minutes a species will go extinct, 20,000 species this year, and this Sunday, November 22, 8PM Eastern MSNBC will be airing "100 Heartbeats" hosted by Jeff Corwin to fight back
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The Galaxy Dress Embroidered With 24,000 LEDs That Is Guaranteed to Light Up Any Room
Offbeat  (tags: Women, Fashion, Galaxy Dress, Feminism, Art, News, Science, Technology )

Alisa
- 5 hours ago - dailymail.co.uk
Women could soon literally 'light up a room' thanks to a high-tech dress embroidered with 24,000 tiny LED bulbs.
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Lions and Tigers and Bears ... Oh My!
Offbeat  (tags: job, animal hugger, baby animals, dream job )

Simone
- 6 hours ago - gothenburgtimes.com
Gothenburg graduate lands dream job cuddling baby animals. For as long as Lindsey Weiss can remember, she has wanted to have a job that allowed her to work with animals
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Lincoln's Letter to Boy Goes on Sale
Offbeat  (tags: Lincoln, Letter, Sale, schoolmate, history )

Sophie
- 7 hours ago - news.aol.com
In March of 1861, a new president had just been sworn in and the nation was on the brink of civil war. Yet Abraham Lincoln still found a moment to come to the defense of a kid whose schoolmates were picking on him.
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Catalina Island Bison Going on Birth Control
Offbeat  (tags: catalina island bison, populations, numbers, birth control programme )

Simone
- 7 hours ago - nbclosangeles.com
Bison on Santa Catalina Island are getting the Planned Parenthood treatment. The animals, commonly called American buffalo, are starting birth control Friday as part of a five-year experimental program to control the population. Apparently abstinence-
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