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Family vacation hot spots in Indianapolis
The Children's Museum. Sometimes biggest is best, and this, the largest children's museum in the world, is a smashing hit with kids of all ages. Ramps spiral up five floors, with Dale Chihuly's largest-ever permanent glass installation soaring up...Tags: Family, Bowling, Forests, Lifestyle and Leisure, Mini
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World Cup tour
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — At the southernmost point of South Africa where two oceans, the Atlantic and the Indian, meet, the weight of a vast, ancient continent lies northward.
More than anywhere else in Africa, history and nature seem to...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, Finance, Nature, Lifestyle and Leisure, Wetlands
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Shrine Circus to include white tigers for first time
For the first time, a set of white tigers is part of the Yelduz Shrine Circus in Aberdeen. The six tigers are part of the Vicenta Pages' tiger troupe, which is on tour for the first time with a Shrine Circus and the George Carden Circus International....Tags: Tiger (animal), Circuses, Entertainment
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TB in elephants called 'a gray area'
An animal-rights group contends that an elephant performing in Baltimore with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus poses a health risk to the public because she has tested positive for tuberculosis, but circus and government health officials...Tags: Politics, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Crimes, Human Interest, Circuses
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A $2.55 elephant encounter in Thailand
It was, unquestionably, the best $2.55 I've ever spent on vacation.
For less than the cost of a Double Whopper, I spent a day in the company of 55 whoppers -- domesticated Asian elephants being rehabbed after lives of labor. No chains, no enclosures,...Tags: Forests, Animals, Thailand, Travel, Forestry and Timber
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The Valley Line: Social scene picks up with season
The trappings of the joyous Christmas season are popping up all over our city. As if by magic colored lights have been appearing in gardens and tracing the roof lines of houses. My grandchildren, as all little children everywhere, are trying to be on...Tags: Christmas, Family, Charity, Music, Children
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Around & About
BOUTIQUES: Holiday Ceramics Sale — Friday, Dec. 10, 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 11, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 12, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Community Center of La Ca¿¿ada Flintridge welcomes more than 50 artists to display and sell their...Tags: Starz, LLC, Christmas, First Aid, Holidays, Emergency Health Procedures
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Fort Worth Zoo Takes Freeze Precautions
The 33 NewsThe Fort Worth Zoo is one of the hottest attractions in North Texas. On a very busy day, the zoo might draw a crowd of 25,000 people. Not today. With the bitter cold, the zoo didn't have any visitors Friday, except for a photographer taking a picture...Tags: Animals
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Elephants' newly discovered fear of bees could help prevent run-ins with African farmers
L.A. UnleashedJOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Eek, a bee! Lore has it that elephants are afraid of mice, but scientists have now discovered that elephants are truly afraid of bees -- and that the pachyderms even sound an alarm when they encounter...... -
Vuvuzela: the World Cup’s controversial fan ‘accessory’
Fashion Focus» Orlando Sentinel – Fashion FocusForget team shirts and silly hats. The must-have accessory for football fans at the World Cup is the vuvuzela — the colorful plastic “stadium horn” that produces that maddening, swarm-of-angry-hornets din. My South African friend... -
Forget England, U.S. must beat Elephants first
The Other Football - Orlando SentinelThe United States mens soccer team was delayed twice today by elephants. The second delay happened as the team was on its way to train at Royal Bafokeng Stadium. That time an elephant was munching on a tree. Earlier in the day, 10 players were stuck on... -
African elephants imperiled by ivory trade in Asia
L.A. UnleashedPUTIAN, China — Carefully, the Chinese ivory dealer pulled out an elephant tusk cloaked in bubble wrap and hidden in a bag of flour. Its price: $17,000. "Do you have any idea how many years I could get locked away......
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