Interesting Interestings, 2007-12-28
Friday, December 28, 2007 NBEHTM
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The director of the zoo where a teenager was killed by an escaped tiger acknowledged Thursday that the wall around the animal’s pen was just 12 1/2 feet high - well below the height recommended by the accrediting agency for the nation’s zoos.
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Celebrities, who have become important players in the political fundraising process, are under increasing pressure to campaign for their favorite candidates in the early caucus and primary states.
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Climate-change skeptics are taking a beating these days even in France, where people long resisted the green creed.
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At least 10 people have been killed in a car bombing in a busy square in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police and hospital officials have said.
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US presidential hopefuls are battling for political advantage in the final days before the Iowa caucuses on 3 January start the nominating contest.
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Iran received the second shipment of nuclear fuel from Russia on Friday for a power plant being constructed in the southern Iranian town of Bushehr, the official news agency IRNA reported.
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Frustrated by what they see as insufficient action by state and federal government, municipalities around the country are offering financial incentives to get people to go green.
