San Diego's elephants no longer super-sized (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Forget the South Beach Diet and the Zone in 2009. The newest weight-loss craze, if it catches on outside the pachyderm world, could be the San Diego Zoo's So-You-Feel-Like-An-Elephant Diet. Elephants at the zoo and Wild Animal Park have lost 11,314 pounds, thanks to a nutrition and exercise plan started by their trainers in 2000. That's nearly 5.7 tons among seven animals.
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Briefly in Tompkins (The Ithaca Journal)
Ithaca High School students Jacob Evelyn (senior) and Mary Eloundou (sophomore) were awarded first prize and third prize in an essay competition to celebrate the French Presidency of the European Union, which ran from July-December 2008. Janet Bowman, French language teacher at Ithaca High School, learned of the competition through the Cornell Institute for European Studies' outreach program. ...
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RNC hopefuls predict Obama backlash (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Candidates vying for RNC chair predicted Obama administration would outspend its political capital.
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In Aussie Awe (Salem Statesman Journal)
Michael and Linda Wooters of Salem spent 24 days in August and September (late winter in Australia) crisscrossing through eastern Aussie coastal towns. Here is the first part of their travels, from arriving in Melbourne in the state of Victoria on the southeast side of the country to catching the Penguin Parade that occurs nightly on Phillip Island to a brief stop in the center of the country to ...
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Briefly in Tompkins (The Ithaca Journal)
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