By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As today (Friday, Aug. 26) is National Dog Day, I feel I must pay tribute to Benji, our three- year-old combination Schnauzer and Lhasa Apso. “Benji” is short for Benjamin Harrison, so, in our eyes at least, our dog is very presidential. Every morning when I awaken, Benji […]
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San Diego County, The World We Share, Trivia, Humor & SatireThursday is the 100th anniversary of the law that created the US National Park Service. The vast system includes parks featuring spectacular scenery and sites that are historically and culturally famous all over the world. Seattle (dpa) – The US system of US national parks is one of extremes. There is a park where the
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By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — The Doggie Street Festival is the love child of Jude Pauline Artenstein, a San Diego based independent filmmaker and wife of producer/director Isaac Artenstein. She founded the annual festival eight years ago as a civic tribute to her beloved golden retriever, Scout. During that time [2008-2009], she was recuperating
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Mimi Pollack, The World We ShareORLANDO, Fla. — Lane Graves bent over to scoop wet sand into his small plastic bucket when the alligator struck. The 2-year-old wanted to build a sandcastle on the beach at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa after stormy weather canceled a scheduled outdoor movie. His father, who was standing nearby with his wife and
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The World We Share, USASydney (dpa) – Four men broke into an Australian high school and set loose three female saltwater crocodiles before ransacking an office, local police said Monday. The incident took place at Taminmin College in the unusually named town of Humpty Doo in the Northern Territory early Sunday, a police spokeswoman said. CCTV video released by
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International, The World We ShareForty thousand homes damaged and more than a dozen people killed by torrential rains in Louisiana. Blistering temperatures in the Middle East. Continuing fires in California, fed by five years of drought. All this extreme weather around the world just this week has a lot of people again pointing fingers at climate change — not
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The World We ShareYou can get a pretty good idea of a country’s wealth by seeing how much it shines at night — just compare the intense brightness of China and South Korea to the dark mass of North Korea that’s sandwiched between them. But nighttime lights don’t tell you which neighborhoods or villages within a large region
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)==The animal care team at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park used ultrasound and radiography to further examine Wallis, a female southern white rhino at the Nikita Kahn Rhino Rescue Center, this morning (Aug. 19, 2016). The exam was an additional attempt to determine the cause of a wound on the animal’s
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San Diego County, The World We ShareIf you’ve heard of American lawyer and author Steven Wise, it’s likely due to the peculiar lawsuits he filed in 2013 in New York State court. What makes these suits eccentric, and their plaintiffs certified media darlings, is that the plaintiffs are not human – but rather chimpanzees. If these legal proceedings are successful, something
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–San Diego Zoo Global has joined with zoos around the world in support of an international campaign to stop the massive and cruel illegal trade in wildlife—the fourth largest illegal trade in the world, after drugs, weapons and human trafficking. The global “Lend Your Eyes to the Wild” campaign encourages individuals to
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International, The World We Share, Travel and FoodProPublica’s reporting on the water crisis in the American West has highlighted any number of confounding contradictions worsening the problem: Farmers are encouraged to waste water so as to protect their legal rights to its dwindling supply in the years ahead; Las Vegas sought to impose restrictions on water use while placing no checks on
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The World We Share, USAAfter trying to lick up the last bit of yogurt from a plastic cup, a squirrel got its head stuck and needed some emergency assistance in Connecticut. A group of chuckling emergency medical service paramedics accepted the task of freeing the rodent from its confines using a blanket. The squirrel, blinded by the yogurt cup
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The World We ShareSalma Hage hooked me with her baba ganoush – smooth, garlicky, and most definitely moreish. She reeled me in with her other mezze classics: fava bean and mint falafel; sweet potato kibbeh; and beets with labneh (a tart, strained yogurt cheese). The Lebanese cook focuses entirely on the meatless in her second book, The Middle
By Mimi Pollack RAMONA, California — Many of us lead mundane lives, but not Roy Toft. This amiable, 55 year old wildlife photographer has had enough adventures for many lifetimes! Originally, his major was wildlife biology at California Polytechnic University, but a camera, a Canon AE1, given as a graduation gift by his father,
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