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Police find 112 live chihuahuas Police find 150 dead chihuahuas Started with two dogs four years ago POLICE were shocked to find more than 150 dead dogs packed into a freezer in a US home yesterday. The dogs were found at the home of a “confused and disoriented” man who earlier this week had 112 live dogs – mostly chihuahuas – removed from his Michigan home. Authorities were alerted to the presence of the dogs after neighbours complained about the stench of the place and found chihuahuas “everywhere” in his filthy three-bedroom home. Garbage was piled to the ceiling and...

The top U.S. food safety official says he believes the Chinese government is serious about improving the quality of its food products. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's David Acheson spoke Wednesday following a series of scandals involving tainted products from China. The safety of a wide range of Chinese products is global headline news these days. Patients in Panama died from poisonous ingredients in medicines made in China. In the United States, American consumers have contended with tainted pet food, contaminated toothpaste and a U.S. government alert on imports of seafood products from China. On Tuesday, China executed the...

The Prince of Wales was a "most likeable person", President Gaddafi a "mad clown" and Michael Jackson was "surprisingly shy". The private diaries of Ronald Reagan, which are about to be published for the first time, reveal a US president who was worried about imminent Armageddon but who also fretted about how he would handle chopsticks in front of the Chinese. The man who was credited with ending the Cold War reveals that he was "lonesome" when his wife, Nancy, was away and refused to talk to their son, Ron Junior, after he hung up on him. His carefully handwritten...

Regulation: The food police are back, with the misnamed Center for Science in the Public Interest saying this time that Chinese food is bad for us. Put that egg roll down and back away slowly. If you're a prisoner on death row, don't order any Chinese food, at least according to the CSPI food cops. The sodium alone will kill you. A plate of General Tso's chicken, the group says, has 40% more sodium and more than half the calories the average adult needs daily. Those who remember Seinfeld's 'Soup Nazi' shouting 'No soup for you!' whenever a customer dared...

Dear FReeper animal lovers: I have a dilemma regarding my cat and could use some advice. I have had Norman the cat for six years and he is a very beloved pet and companion. He got sick this morning, and my vet says he must have surgery or he will die. Here is the problem: the vet quoted me a price of $1800 (yes, $1800) for Norman's treatment; this includes what he has already done in an attempt to cure the cat without surgery, the surgery itself, and care after the surgery. $1800 is a tremendous amount of money but...

SHANGHAI - Seven lions attacked a cleaner on his first day at work after he took a shortcut through their enclosure, state press said. Zhang Huabang was in a critical condition after mistakenly walking through the unlocked gate of the enclosure at Shanghai Wildlife Park to get to the other side, the China Daily said. Staff at the zoo used a water hose to drive the lions away and threw live chickens into the enclosure to distract the animals before rescuing the cleaner, the report said. He suffered lacerations to his face, shoulders and legs and was in intensive care,...

Sweet-and-sour pork, fried rice wow Bush at Apec meet HONGKONG - Yangzhou fried rice and sweet-and-sour pork were among United States President George W. Bush's favourite dishes during his recent trip to Shanghai, staff at a hotel revealed. Chef Su Qingwei of the Portman Ritz-Carlton hotel where Mr Bush put up, said he 'ordered Yangzhou fried rice and sweet-and-sour pork several times during his stay' 'Later, even his personal assistant grew to like these two dishes. We will be renaming the dish 'Bush Yangzhou Fried Rice' from now on,' he added. Mr Bush and his delegation, who were in Shanghai ...

American sociologists and historians have long recognized that ethnic culture and identity has been created rather than inherited. People in traditional societies identified themselves by tribe, village, or region. In modern America, immigrants and their children were defined by others, and usually came to define themselves, as an ethnic or national group.1 Further, as Glazer and Moynihan pointed out in Beyond the Melting Pot, the process of cultural invention did not stop with the first generation: One could not predict from its first arrival what it might become or, indeed, whom it might contain .... In the second generation, and...