Born without her front legs and abandoned on the street by her original owners, Estrella, a one-and-a-half-year-old mutt, has not let her disability hold her back. Adopted by a couple running an animal shelter in the small Peruvian town of Tinga Maria, Estrella has gained celebrity status by hopping around — just like a kangaroo. An increasing number of visitors […]
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The Date There is no souls or solos any mileage from here and the breath of the atmosphere is asinine lost in the blurry of nature like an artistic totem behind pencils. It’s just you and me opposite the encirclement of this dining… Dear dame, we won’t wrap our lips into whispers of love or anything that sails above, of […]
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“I want to invite you this year to fix your eyes on Jesus, Teacher and Lord of life.” – Pope Francis
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“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” – Steve Prefontaine
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Freckles They Called Him Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an ethnic restaurant but Victoria wanted a salad. Walt as always was obliging. The restaurant host was a young man who as a […]
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“While visiting Brooklyn, I heard a dog barking in someone’s courtyard. Then I realized, one dog can annoy a thousand people, but one person can’t annoy a thousand dogs.”
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“People always say that a person reflects their true character when no one is around. I have found in life that this is not true. Yes, people act like they truly would when they are alone; but how they act when pressured by the people they look up to, is a true character evaluation.”
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Results from a new climate reconstruction of how Antarctica’s ice sheets responded during the last period when atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) reached levels like those expected to occur in about 30 years, plus sediment core findings reported in a companion paper, suggest that the ice sheets are more vulnerable to rising atmospheric CO2 than previously thought. Details appear in two […]
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