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A motion-detector camera has photographed two wolves killing lambs on a ranch in Eastern Oregon — the first documented wolf attack on livestock in Oregon since they started moving into the state in 1999.

Patriots predicted a financial meltdown and the ensuing chaos. Now it’s a bestselling manifesto. Survivalist James Wesley, Rawles talks to Sara Nelson from an undisclosed location. Every once in a while, a book you’ve never heard of by a writer you’ve never heard of comes out of the woodwork to become a bestseller. That was the story with the Tim LaHaye Left Behind novels of the 1990s, and with last year’s The Shack, by William P. Young. Both “faith-based,” and both originally either self- or tiny-house published, these books would never be reviewed by the likes of any of the...

Three hospitalized after dog attack Modified: April 16, 2009 01:10 PM Three people had to undergo surgery for injuries suffered after an attack by a pit bull dog, Bossier City police said. The incident happened late Wednesday night on Rossie Lee Drive in south Bossier. Officers dispatched there found two women -- Jennifer Veillon, 25, and Angela Martin, 24 -- outside the residence with wounds to their hands and legs. Veillon and Martin said they were attacked by Martin’s male pit bull for unknown reasons. Martin’s husband, Christopher, 28, was also attacked when heard the commotion and tried to get...

Past the Flagstaff Mall, next to Savers in the McDonald’s Plaza, lies a little store that houses some incredible deals and some bizarre retail history. It’s called the Amazing 99 Cent Store. Yes, really, and it lives up to the name. And believe me, when the apocalypse hits, you’re going to shop here often. Along with the cockroaches, it’ll be the only thing left. The Amazing Store acts somewhat like a dollar store, but better. The majority of their retail includes failed marketing ideas or marked-down/expired goods. The first thing you’ll notice as you walk inside is the mess. The...

Brad Garrett's Racist Taunts Brad Garrett ignited a new racial firestorm yesterday when the giant actor dropped some serious slurs at a paparazzo during a heated argument in the middle of the street. We don't know what set off the scuffle, but Garrett can be clearly heard saying, "Wear the turban! Wear the turban!" People had to restrain both Garrett and the photog from attacking each other, but eventually Brad got into his car and drove off. A rep for Garrett was not immediately available for comment. Him and the pap are yelling at each other and being held back...

With her huge furrry ears and long, quivering nose, baby kangaroo Tijana is utterly adorable. But her unarguable cuteness hides a rather unfortunate start to her short life. At just a few weeks old, the tiny creature tumbled from the pouch of her mother, who had been terrified by an emu. Tijana, who lives at Belgrade Zoo, in Serbia, had to be retrieved by staff and is now being handreared. She is still so young she cannot survive outside of a pouch and must stay in a special incubator, where the temperature remains a constant 35C. Biologists have also made...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (AHN) - A Brazilian woman survived a robbery and shooting attack on a bus because she had stuffed money into her bra. Ivonete Pereira, 58, was shot in the chest by one of the attackers who were trying to rob a bus in Salvador, the capital of the northeastern state of Bahia in Brazil, the United Kingdom's Sky News reported. Pereira was traveling to her summer home in the nearby town on Lauro de Freitas. Because of frequent bus attacks in the area, she hid her money in the left cup of her bra. As the...

With a voice as smooth as a newborn’s bottom, the storyteller captivated his audience with little-known tales about Abraham Lincoln. His energy began to build as Lincoln’s train picks up speed, and when it entered the station and the air breaks flared, “Pssssshhhh,” Jim Woodard brought down the energy, but kept the interest level high. “Worldwide Folktales & Legends” was just one of the 55 lectures, performances, discussions and demonstrations available to students as a part of Multicultural Day on April 15 at Moorpark College. “This is one of my favorite venues to come to,” said Woodard. “The audience was...

Come April 23, and a total of 65 editions of Fauren Warte, a collection of Nazi women's magazines featuring knitting patterns, fashion advice, and at the same time blaming the British for WWII, are set to be auctioned. The magazine, which ran from 1935 to 1945, and was the Nazi Party's biweekly-illustrated magazine for women, had a circulation of nearly two million at its peak. Now, it's all set to be auctioned at Ludlow. As you turn through these pages you get an incredibly creepy feeling about these magazines as you realise they are not what they appear to be....

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Ever since they started in the '80s, Apple's Mac operating system and Microsoft's Windows have followed different paths to attaining different goals. Windows went after market share; Mac focused on a seamless user experience. Beneath the superficial surface features, what are the real core differences between the two operating systems? Ask a Mac OS X fan or a Windows fan what the difference is between the two operating systems, and the short answer might be something like, "The difference is, the one I use doesn't stink." That response may underscore the emotional pull an operating system has with a particular...

ONDON, April 15 (Reuters) - A stem-cell repair technique that has already been used to fix hundreds of injured race horses is to be tested for the first time in people with damaged Achilles tendons. Privately owned British biotech firm MedCell Bioscience Ltd said on Wednesday it would start clinical tests within 12 months and planned to run a larger confirmatory study at several European hospitals in 2011. Patients will receive injections containing millions of their own stem cells, which have been extracted and multiplied up in a laboratory, and can regenerate new tissue to repair damaged regions.

<p>So, after all the buzz about the YouTube Symphony Orchestra altering the audition process forever, after months of interactive computer chat about the world’s first collaborative online orchestra, after 96 winning players were selected from among the more than 3,000 musicians who submitted audition videos and were brought to New York for a group summit and Carnegie Hall concert, how did the YouTube Symphony Orchestra finally play?</p>

In case you missed it ... HBO is making a movie about the 2008 presidential campaign. Hollywood doesn't wait around anymore, it seems. So already a casting director somewhere is probably asking herself this question: Who should play John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and -- yes -- Sarah Palin? Salon & Entertainment Weekly have posed the question, and it's a good one. Salon readers have pitched Megan Mulally, Hilary Swank, Sandra Bullock and Felicity Huffman for Palin and Laura Linney, Glenn Close and Meryl Streep for Clinton -- with Will Smith playing Obama. P.S. -- The movie...

Pictured: The incredible daredevil who balances on the edge of 1,000ft cliffs By Daily Mail Reporter 16th April 2009 One slip and it's all over. These astonishing pictures show extreme artist Eskil Ronningsbakken pushing the boundaries of strength and concentration with jaw-dropping balancing feats. Whether pedalling upside down nearly naked across a crevasse or perching precariously on a a cliff-top aboard a penny-farthing, Eskil's skill is truly on a knife edge. Describing himself as an 'educated balancing performer', the 29-year-old Norwegian has been honing his skills since the age of five when he began clambering up trees in his native...

This seems low. Rush said there were 800 tea parties nationally. Most reports I've seen in FR show about 1000 at most tea parties. Many even more.800 X 1000 = 800,000 ?Has any one seen better national estimates?

John Madden is going out on top. After calling one of the most thrilling Super Bowls of all-time, the 73-year old analyst-turned-video-game-icon is retiring from the broadcast booth, NBC announced today. It won't feel the same without Madden calling games on any network this year (he's been employed by each of the four major broadcast channels since he began calling games in 1979), but it's the right time for Madden to hang up his microphone.

Because the medications I must use to treat my COPD now will cost me $600.00 a month at Walmart, I placed an order with a Canadian pharmacy, for equivalent medications, at about $200.00 a month. All went well, but then I learned that my order may be held up, for up to 3 weeks, by U.S. Customs. Maybe I should just start doseing myself with Mexican heroin, they let it in with no delay! I try to take care of myself, I could go to the county and beg, but I'm not down that low yet, I'll tough it out!

What a great turn out - they estimated 5000+. It was SO awesome to be amongst all these wonderful people, standing strong for what we believe. At first it was hard to hear the speakers because a helicopter hovered for the first hour. I don't know if it was a news chopper or police, but it was annoying. After that, several speakers went up, from JD Hayworth, Bruce Jacobs (KFYI), John Shadegg, Russell Pierce, Trent Franks... I took these photos with my digital camera...