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Small Canadian Town Bans Shark FinsUsing the concept 'Think Global, Act Local,' Coquitlam council this week banned shark fins from being possessed, traded, sold and distributed in the city. |
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Branson Unveils Aviation Overhaul To Curb Global WarmingNew York - British tycoon Richard Branson Wednesday urged the aviation industry to join his Virgin Atlantic airline in an ambitious plan to combat the potential "catastrophe" of global warming. |
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Obscure Robert Frost poem discoveredNew York City, New York, USA - An unpublished Robert Frost poem, a tribute to a friend killed during World War I, has been rediscovered and will appear next week in the fall issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review, the University of Virginia announced Wednesday. |
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Johnson Co. boy found aliveJohnson County, Texas, USA - Police said two-year-old Kevin Brown was found alive Sunday after he disappeared from his front yard Thursday evening. |
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Astronomers Find Supernova First Spotted 2,000 Years AgoUtrecht, Netherlands - Nearly 2,000 years ago, Chinese astronomers spotted a bright light materializing in the night sky. |
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Dogs, cats orphaned by war in Lebanon to be airlifted to U.S. for adoptionBeirut, Lebanon - They endured a summer of war, but now relief is coming for Lebanons little-known victims җ cats and dogs abandoned when their owners fled the country during the early days of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. |
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White House online budget database: your taxes at workWashington, D.C. - President Bush said Tuesday that Americans will now be able to "Google their tax dollars," as he signed a law to create an online database for tracking about $1 trillion in government spending on grants and contracts. |
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Three-year-old buys pink convertible on eBayLondon, England, UK - Jack Neal briefly became the proud owner of a pink convertible car after he managed to buy it for 9,000 pounds on the Internet despite being only three years old |
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Treasures looted by Rome ‘are back in the Holy Land’Jerusalem, Israel - A collection of sacred artefacts looted by the Romans from the Temple of Jerusalem and long suspected of being hidden in the vaults of the Vatican are actually in the Holy Land, according to a British archaeologist. |
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Australian Teenager Gets Date With Miss Universe 2004Sydney, Australia - One Australian teenager finds out that dreams can come true. |
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Ancient Pregnant Reptile Fossil Discovered Under Pingpong TableEdmonton, Alberta, Canada - Three new species of an ancient marine reptile, including a pregnant fossil, were recently discovered by University of Alberta paleontologistsunder a pingpong table. |
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Judge bans snowmobiles to protect caribou in northern IdahoSpokane, Washington, USA - A judge has declared nearly 470 square miles of national forest land in northern Idaho off-limits to snowmobiles in an effort to save the last mountain caribou herd in the contiguous 48 states. |
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Vaccine Aims to Wipeout Ear, Sinus InfectionsWashington, DC, USA - U.S. researchers said Tuesday that they are starting trials of a new vaccine aimed at wiping out childhood ear and sinus infections and many cases of bronchitis in adults. |
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U.S. Says Will Pull Alaska Wetlands from Oil DrillingWashington, DC, USA - In a win for environmentalists, the U.S. Interior Department says it is willing to withdraw sensitive wetlands from a large area in Alaska's western Arctic region that it wanted to open next week to oil and natural gas drilling. |
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Two New Wildlife Parks Created in CongoOugoue-Lekiti National Park, Republic of Congo - The Republic of Congo will set aside up to 3,800 square miles (1 million hectares) of habitat teeming with elephants, chimpanzees, hippos, crocodiles, and some of the highest densities of gorillas on Earth for two new wildlife parks. |
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Dolphin May Get a Prosthetic TailClearwater, Florida, USA - The news from Indian River Lagoon was too familiar: another dolphin gravely injured because of human action. |
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‘Blimp’ your ride with hydrogenNew York, NY - This summer, as 100 of the world's finest, fastest and most fuel-hungry cars in the world congregated in Times Square for the Bullrun Rally, another unique vehicle made its debut. |
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