Shark-Smuggling Bust Nets $1 Million for Habitat Protection

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Friday, 23 February 2007
"Leopard sharks in San Francisco Bay will benefit from fines totaling nearly a million U.S. dollars — money resulting from the bust of a massive shark-smuggling ring that had been operating locally. Fines collected from six people convicted of the crimes will be used to create a habitat restoration fund for the sharks." (Nat'l Geographic News)
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Consumers Stand Up for Rights in UK Banks, Stadiums

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Tuesday, 27 February 2007
bank"People are exhibiting a steadfast refusal to put up with unfair high prices or shoddy standards, sometimes harnessing the power of the internet to fight back. Yesterday the number of people thought to be taking action against the banks over excessive charges for overdrafts or bounced cheques topped one million. Banks are forecast to lose at least £50m from this unprecedented consumer revolt, which is gathering pace by the day." (Details in the London Independent)
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(UPDATED) Bill Clinton Brokers Generic AIDS Drug Deal

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Tuesday, 08 May 2007
"Former U.S. president Bill Clinton has announced a deal with drug companies to drastically reduce the cost of second-line anti-retroviral HIV/AIDS medicines for people in the developing world. His foundation has also negotiated a deal allowing a one-pill-a-day treatment that would cost less than $1 a day for developing countries, a 45 percent saving on the current price in Africa..."
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Feathers Fly in Tel Aviv Pillow Fighting

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Wednesday, 27 June 2007
"Israelis try to cushion the effects of their daily stress by taking part in the third annual mass pillow fight. While Israeli forces attack in Gaza and the regional conflict seemed far from an end, residents of the coastal city of Tel Aviv engage in some stress-busting scuffles involving pillows." (Video)
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Good Neighbors in Espanola, NM

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Sunday, 07 May 2006
It is not common to hear good news about Espanola, so I thought I would tell your readers this story.

A few weeks ago, on a Saturday evening when we were not at home, a car came around the corner and knocked down about 25 feet of the coyote fence in the back of our house.

friendly flowersA week later, after breakfast, we noticed a car parked by the broken fence and a man and a woman were throwing new latillas up on the rocks in our yard. We thought to ourselves that the people who knocked the fence down had decided to fix it. But when we went out to speak to them, they told us that they had noticed what good care we took of our property and that we had even put a bench on the corner for the children to use while they waited for the school bus and God had told them that they should fix the fence for us.
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