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My cat is fed well. Every morning and evening he gets a full cup of Little Friskies cat food. He eats until he’s full and often walks away with the bowl still filled with little nuggets.
I even let the [...]

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The pet adoption agency was open so I went to just look. On the one hand, it was a very clean place and the people there were friendly but the situation was quite sad with the kitties, puppies and dogs behind cages.
When I walked in the dog area, they immediately began barking and jumping on [...]

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Today, while in St. Augustine, I saw some “gentle giants”. They were rolling over, swimming, playing and seeming to have such a good time. There were 7 as far as we could count and they certainly drew a crowd as we all gathered to get a glimpse when they would surface.
Manatees are frequently [...]

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Recently, I had an opportunity to go to the Seattle Zoo. This was such a fun experience and I tend to really relish finding a unique animal to focus on. Well, this day was really a fun one because this particular animal focussed on me.
For some reason, a peacock sort of “took [...]

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This photo was mailed to me. It seems that this little pig needed a mama and this mama dachshund took it as her own. That’s love! ( Photo was mailed to me- I don’t know who to credit).

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As we all are hearing on our televisions and reading on the internet, our world is in a big, fat mess. The most powerful country in the world, the United States of America has overspent its’ budgets and is also in a big, fat mess. So, what can we do?
PRAY and ACT.
We must [...]

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Texas Oil Tycoon Urges US to Reduce Dependence on Foreign Oil
By Deborah Tate
Capitol Hill
Longtime Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens is calling on the U.S. government to take steps to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil. He is promoting an energy plan that features wind and natural gas - a proposal he discussed with [...]

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From understanding climate change to predicting infectious disease outbreaks to engineering solutions to address disability, scientific research is increasingly crossing the boundaries between disciplines.
Fostering interdisciplinary research, education and training as a means of developing the next generation of scientists is a key goal of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Integrative Graduate Education Research Traineeship (IGERT) [...]

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By VOA News
In this photo released by the Governorate of the Anbar Province, U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama (L) talks with the governor of Iraq’s Anbar province, Maamoun Sami Rashid al-Alwani in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, Iraq, 22 Jul 2008
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama visited Iraq’s Anbar province Tuesday for meetings with Sunni tribal [...]

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It seems that Hal Brindley got the first evidence of that in South Africa on one of his trips. He says that he was at a water hole when all of the sudden it happened. He got it all on digital in a sequence of some 34 photos. Check this out!

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