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Stories You Hate to Hear Newport Beach, California : A group of 40 sea lions has been making itself rather unwelcome in this upscale community. The creatures keep residents awake by barking most of the night. They climb aboard residents’ prized boats : fouling and damaging them. In one case, all 4o climbed aboard a small, pricey sailboat – causing it to sink. Residents are at their wit’s end , because the sea lions are protected by a 1972 federal law , which says the creatures cannot be killed,harmed, or harassed. (It is, incidentally, a law Newport Beach residents lobbied...

No longer centre stage, but Clinton leaves them calling for more By Philip Sherwell in New York (Filed: 18/09/2005) If there was any doubt that Bill Clinton still elicits the adoration of women, Barbra Streisand was on hand last week to squash it. As the former president laid out his agenda for world change from a podium flanked by Tony Blair, Condoleezza Rice and King Abdullah of Jordan, the singer-actress emitted a series of gentle but disconcerting squeals of approval, interspersed with admiring sighs. Bill Clinton and Tony Bennett Hers was typical of the audience reaction at launch of the...