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Newspaper Claims Suspect Transformed Into A Goat–AP headline

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

At first blush, this shape-shifting view of criminal justice
may appear to be lunacy,
but take a gander at these two US stories of shape-shifting within the species.

Defense Waiting to Decide on Plea Bargain for Boy, 8–New York Times
Christopher Pittman, 15, who was 12 at the time of the November 2001 slayings of Joe Frank […]

Posted in Law, USA, Crime, Nigeria |

Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls–I give you the Tyranno–Transport.

Friday, December 14th, 2007

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New Blood-Thirsty Dinosaur Identified
Dave Mosher
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com Tue Dec 11, 8:02 PM ET
A graduate student has identified the remains of one of the planet’s largest meat-eating dinosaurs ever found.
Steve Brusatte, a paleobiologist at the University of Bristol in England, determined fossils discovered during a 1997 Nigerian expedition belong to a new breed of meat-eating […]

Posted in Science, Nigeria, Dinosaurs, Paleontology |

Is it like the time the U.S. government tested radioactive isotopes in the milk of mentally challenged children in Massachusetts?*

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

Pfizer Illegally Tested Unapproved Drug On Children In Nigeria
Medical News Today
Article Date: 07 May 2006 - 7:00am (PDT)
During an epidemic in Nigeria in 1996, Pfizer illegally tested an unapproved drug on children with brain infections, says a panel of Nigerian medical experts. According to the report, published in the Sunday (today) edition of the […]

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