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California Leads the Nation with 912 Bank Robberies a Year
blogs.houstonpress.com — The FBI today released its study of 2008 bank robberies nationwide. Worst time to be in a bank branch: Tuesday from 9-11 a.m. That's when 1,803 robberies occurred; next worse was Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., when 1,629 happened. More…
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An Eco-War Is Coming to Alaska: Salmon vs. the Gold Miners
outside.away.com — From piece: "In one corner of Alaska's Bristol Bay, the sockeye salmon, a $300 million resource that's sustained fishermen like 29-year-old captain Lindsey Bloom for more than 100 years. In the other, the Pebble Mine, with its projected hundreds of billions in copper and gold. Get ready for the fiercest wilderness rumble since ANWR." More…
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Pissed Star Wars Fans Finally Get Tauntaun Sleeping Bag
blogs.laweekly.com — Remember that Tauntaun sleeping bag that was supposedly for sale on Think Geek but wasn't, because it was April Fools and they were only kidding? So many people wanted it and got angry that it wasn't available. The company has now decided to try to bring it to life for real -- if the suits at Lucasfilms will grant them a license. More…
Whales Caught as Incidental Bycatch Threaten Populations
bluelivingideas.com — The sale of bycatch alone supports a lucrative trade in whale meat at markets in some Korean coastal cities, where the wholesale price of an adult minke whale can reach as high as $100,000. Given these financial incentives, you have to wonder how many of these whales are, in fact, killed intentionally. More…
naturalpapaMan Hacks Wife With Meat Cleaver For Sweeping Clumsily
gothamist.com — A Brooklyn woman is in critical condition after her husband hacked her repeatedly with a meat cleaver in their Dyker Heights apartment yesterday morning. 54-year-old Shao Ling Ye was sweeping up during breakfast when, according to her husband, Youshening Huang, "She swept over my feet and that really sparked it." More…
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