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Webber wanted him for Phantom, but there was a post-production dialogue conflict involving the hippo’s role in Scorsese’s Gangs of New York.

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

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Sydney Morning Herald
Zoo’s new baby turns out for the cameras
November 8, 2008
Taronga Zoo’s new pygmy hippo baby was unfazed by the cameras, lapping up lunch before jumping into a bath.
But her birth three weeks ago was almost too much for Monifa, whose name means “I am lucky” in Nigerian.
A difficult breach birth left the calf […]

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Quick!! Clean them hombres off before John McCain uses ‘em as a television backdrop.

Monday, September 8th, 2008

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Algae-dyed polar bears puzzle Japan zoo visitors
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Sun Sep 7, 3:08 PM ET
TOKYO - Green polar bears are drawing questions from puzzled visitors at a Japanese zoo.
Three normally white polar bears at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in central Japan changed their color in July after swimming in a pond with an overgrowth of algae.
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Images: (bears) […]

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Is this another example of newspaper & electronic media reporters’…

Friday, December 28th, 2007

reading handouts instead of using a minimal amount of investigatory journalism? How many times did we hear and read since Tuesday that the wall was anywhere from 15–20 feet high and the moat was 10 to 20 feet wide? Is it any wonder that difficult assignments like war, economics and politics are often […]

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I made the flight because of my facility for creating St. Elmo’s fire.

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Beluga moved to Tacoma, Wash., aquarium
Sun Jun 10, 9:57 PM ET
AP–A thousand-pound, 6-year-old beluga whale arrived at a Tacoma Aquarium early Sunday after a flight on a chartered military transport plane from Chicago.
Qannik, an Inuit name for snowflake, traveled tucked inside an enormous, foam-padded tank in the DC-8 plane for a cross-country flight that cost […]

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