By Jenn Lindsay ROME, Italy — Two weeks after I met the man who would become my husband, we were sitting on the moonlit front porch of a house in Umbria, breathing in the fresh air of the Italian countryside. If we had been from the same country, we might have been nervous about our […]
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International, San Diego County, The World We Share, Travel and FoodMIAMI — More than 80 false killer whales have been found dead after stranding themselves along the remote coast of Southwest Florida in Everglades National Park, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Monday. So far, the death toll is 81, with just one of the rare whales found alive. Crews continue to search for
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The World We Share, USAThe Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus said on Saturday it will cease performances after 146 years in business, owing to what it said were declining tickets sales and high operating costs. “After much evaluation and deliberation, my family and I have made the difficult business decision that Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey
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The World We Share, USASpaceX returned to orbit Saturday with a successful launch, more than four months after a Falcon 9 rocket exploded on its launchpad. Elon Musk’s aerospace company launched 10 communications satellites for Virginia-based Iridium from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, with the Falcon 9 rocket lifting off at 9:54 a.m. PST, according to Space.com. It
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The World We ShareSeaWorld San Diego ended its long-running killer whale show on Sunday, following years of protests and falling attendance. SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. announced last year that it was ending its theatrical orca shows and breeding programme. The final performances, which featured whales cavorting with trainers and leaping high out of the Shamu Stadium pool, came only
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The World We Share, USAThe most powerful telescope that has been orbiting Mars for over 10 years now sent back a striking image two months ago. Actually, it was four separate photographs, of which two were selected to be made into one composite image, but the result is still spectacular. This composite image, released Friday, shows Earth and the
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The World We ShareORLANDO, Fla. — Tilikum, the SeaWorld killer whale that inspired the anti-captivity documentary “Blackfish” after killing an Orlando trainer, has died. SeaWorld said Tilikum had been battling a serious and persistent lung infection. Acquired by SeaWorld in 1992, Tilikum helped SeaWorld grow its captive orca collection by fathering more than a dozen offspring. But Tilikum
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The World We Share, USAThe rugged Dakar Rally auto race is about to blaze through Bolivia. But to many Bolivians, the timing could not be worse. Thousands of La Paz residents have been protesting these days. Now they’re also shouting online with the hashtag #AguaSíDakarNo — “yes to water, no to Dakar.” In other words, they wish authorities would
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International, The World We ShareThese fossils can reveal a lot about how dinosaurs lived Darla Zelinitsky A fossilized embryo of the duck-billed Hypacrosaurus. Some dinosaur eggs took a surprisingly long time to hatch, according to a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. By examining the teeth of unhatched dinosaur embryos, paleontologists determined
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Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We ShareFour months after a Falcon 9 rocket exploded on a Florida launch pad, SpaceX said Monday that the cause was a failed composite overwrapped pressure vessel used to store liquid helium. In the final update to its investigation, the space company said one of three such tanks in the rocket’s larger, second-stage liquid oxygen tank
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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share, USAMore than 250 small earthquakes have struck since New Year’s Eve near the California-Mexico border, causing unease among residents and attention from scientists. The strongest earthquake in the sequence was magnitude 3.9, directly underneath Brawley, about 170 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The earthquakes struck in the southern end of the Brawley Seismic Zone, a
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International, The World We Share, USAAs the final grains of sand fall through the hourglass of our year, there are many things historians will say in hindsight about 2016. Of course, the year will be remembered for an unprecedented election, but it’ll also be remembered for something else; it will be recognized as a year in which humanity’s changing views
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The World We ShareCheetahs are in a race for survival, with wildlife experts warning that the world’s fastest land animal is close to extinction. Experts estimate that there are only 7,100 cheetahs left in the world – a dramatic decline from 100 years ago, when the total population was estimated at 100,000. So imminent is the threat to
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International, The World We ShareThe year 2017 isn’t coming as soon as you think. In fact, it will be exactly one second late. On Dec. 31, 2016, the international time keeping community will tack an additional second, known as a leap second, on to the last minute of the year. As midnight approaches, the official atomic clocks that keep
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