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One In Four Mammals May Vanish From the Earth
Environment  (tags: mammals, extinction, wildllife, species decline, environment, conservation, animals )

Ombretta
- 10 hours ago - cnn.com
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, based in Switzerland, has just reported that the earth faces the total extinction of one in every four mammals, and that the population is rapidly declining in one out of every two species.
Long-Lost Brother and Sister Were Living Four Miles Apart
Offbeat  (tags: Long-lost, brother, sister, were, living, four, miles, apart )

Boban
- 14 hours ago - mysterytopia.com
Long-lost brother and sister were living four miles apart
Survey Results Are In! - Prisons or Hospitals for Mentally Ill Offenders?
Health & Wellness  (tags: MentalHelath, MentalIllness, AssistancetotheIncarceratedMentallyIll, MaryNeal, LarryNeal, DogJustice, DecriminalizeMentalIllness )

Mary
- 5 days ago - my.nowpublic.com
Results are in on a public survey to collect opinions on whether acute mental patients should be imprisoned or hospitalized if their mental dysfunctions cause them to violate laws. Here are the results!
The FDA Stam of Approval: What Does It Really Mean?
Health & Wellness  (tags: drugs, FDA, Food & Drug administration, pharmaceuticals, drug information, prescriptions, remedies )

Ombretta
- 6 days ago - nytimes.com
Am informative explanation of the role of the FDA in both prescription and over-the-counter drug dispensation. Learn more about what they do - and don't do.
Former CIA Official Pleads Guilty to Fraud, Gets Slap on Wrist By Using Blackmail of Government Secrets
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Kyle Foggo, fraud, contract steering, Wilkes, government secrets, justice, injustice, military contracts )

Ombretta
- 6 days ago - washingtonpost.com
The CIA'S former 3rd-ranked administrator Kyle Foggo pleaded guilty to 1 count of wife fraud & had 27 other charges against him dismissed in the US Federal Court in Alexandria, Virginia. Read the story to find out how he got away with a 3 year sentence.
Very Nervous Dog
Offbeat  (tags: dogs, pets, funny )

Vladimir
- 6 days ago - popgive.com
Is that dog crossed with a Tasmanian Devil?
Procedure Hinders Progress in Point Hope Caribou Case
Animals  (tags: alaska, wildlife, wild animals, caribou, mass killing, endangered, extinction, habitat, sadness, killed, protection, suffering )

Jacquelin
- 8 days ago - adn.com
If anyone is charged in connection with the mass caribou killing on the tundra near Point Hope this summer, they will have a home-court advantage in a village where elders dispute the crimes ever took place. That's because a criminal court procedure tha
400 Sheep Killed in Australian Road Crash: Police
Animals  (tags: australia, live stock, sheep, killed, long distance transportation of live sto, animaladvocates )

Jacquelin
- 8 days ago - news.yahoo.com
SYDNEY (AFP) - Four hundred sheep died in a road accident in Australia, prompting animal rights activists on Tuesday to repeat their call for an end to the long distance transportation of livestock for slaughter. Some 300 sheep died when the two-tier tr
Tribute Planned for Missing Orca Lummi
Animals  (tags: pacific north west, marine wildlife, whales, orcas, lummi, tribute, missing, pressumed dead, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, protection, sadness )

Jacquelin
- 8 days ago - canada.com
VANCOUVER ISLAND - She's been missing and presumed dead for several months, so now it's time to say good-bye. Lummi, the oldest orca among the three pods of endangered southern resident killer whales, did not return to the waters off southern Vancouver
Government To Steal $15,000 From Every American Household To Bailout Big Banks and Lenders
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: usa, bailout, bankers, lenders )

Sweets
- 12 days ago - shadowsbearsoutlook.blogspot.com
If someone came into your home and held you at gunpoint and forced you to fork over $15 thousand dollars in cash (provided, of course, you kept such a large amount at home), you'd call the cops as soon as you could, wouldn't you?
 
 
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