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POPSDinosaur find linked to giant plant eaters The Aardonyx celestae species dates back to the early Jurassic period. Dr. Yates said the creature found in South Africa stood nearly 6 feet high at the hip and weighed about 1,100 pounds. It was about 10 years old when it died, and its death may have been caused by drought. The species shares many characteristics with the plant-eating herbivores that walked on two legs, Dr. Yates said. But the new species also has similar attributes to dinosaurs that grew to massive sizes and went about on all fours with long necks and whip-like tails. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09316/1012833-115.stm#ixzz0Wf3ge1Qc Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09316/1012833-115.stm#ixzz0Wf3ge1Qc
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POPSToxic Drywall Leaving Homeowners in Limbo "This is like the small wave that's out on the horizon that's going to continue to grow and grow until it becomes a tsunami," said Florida attorney David Durkee, who represents hundreds of homeowners who are suing builders, suppliers and manufacturers over the drywall. "This is going to become critical mass very shortly." During the height of the U.S. housing boom, with building materials in short supply, American construction companies imported millions of pounds of Chinese-made drywall because it was abundant and cheap. An Associated Press analysis of shipping records found that more than 500 million pounds of Chinese gypsum board was imported between 2004 and 2008 " enough to have built tens of thousands of homes. They are heavily concentrated in the Southeast, especially Florida.
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POPSacai berry..weight loss scam? I only clipped this b/c i was with a bunch of girlfriends recently that were talking/raving about this acai berry weight loss concept. i felt like i was living under a rock not being 'in-the-know' -- but from this article, seems like i wasn't missing much.
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POPSALLIGATOR GAR FISH Alligator Gar Size - World record on rod and reel is 279 pounds but they get bigger - some have been reported up to 350 pounds and 10 feet long. Most caught by fishermen and bow fishermen now is around 100 pounds.
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POPSMissing Nerve Gas? For example, one site used a scale where "weight could vary by as much as 129 pounds if reweighed on a more accurate scale," the report said. So, auditors wrote, "Due to these methodologies it was determined that weights, in some cases, were inaccurate because of the scales used during the time of production," so it is not surprising they did not match the amounts actually destroyed. Also, auditors wrote that "some of the chemical agent hardened in the container and remained in this state even after the container was destroyed during the demilitarization process." Now do I truly think that this stuff was stolen and sold on the black market? No...but there's still no excuse really.
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POPSSWAT Raids Mayor and Wife, Kill Dogs Fascism! Their pet dogs were killed for "sport" and show! This is unbelievable, as if the mayor would turn and fight with automatic weapons and grenades. Excessive force and paranoia by the police department (vs a male and female), and ended up they were INNOCENT. But the worst for the mayor might have been this: The mayor, who was changing his clothes when police burst in, also complained that he was handcuffed in his boxer shorts for about two hours along with his mother-in-law, and said the officers didn't believe him when he told them he was the mayor. They did not know he was the Mayor? Ineptitude!
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POPSWhy do we gain weight? we eat more. i know it sounds simplistic, but before linking obesity to viruses and other sophisticated theories, one should look straight to the facts, we eat more in quantities, more processed food. We are too reluctant to consciously restrict the availability that we face. a point to think about.
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POPSNatural Disaster Evolves Into Man-Made Catastrophe "We have small helicopters to drop food, and we have doctors." The USS Essex, an amphibious assault ship, and its battle group have been waiting to join in the relief effort as well. U.S. Marine flights from their makeshift headquarters in Utapao, Thailand, continued Saturday — bringing the total to 500,000 pounds of aid delivered. Britain's prime minister accused authorities in Burma of behaving inhumanely by preventing foreign aid from reaching victims. "This is inhuman," Gordon Brown told the British Broadcasting Corp. Brown said a natural disaster "is being made into a man-made catastrophe by the negligence, the neglect and the inhuman treatment of the Burmese people by a regime that is failing to act.
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POPSGiant Pythons Could Inhabit 1/3 of the US Geez. People dropping pythons that can grow that big off in the wild? I'm not afraid of snakes, but that's simply not something I want to see sitting in my yard at six in the morning when I go to work. Is it really so hard to drop it off at a shelter or something? I even know of pet shops that take in unwanted reptiles.
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