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In Brazil, dogs are undergoing plastic surgery. Dr. EdgardBrito, who gives them wrinkle-reductions with Botoxinjections, as well as full facelifts, says, “Why shouldn’ta dog be beautiful?” But just as we don’t want artificially-enhanced athletescompeting in the Olympics, dog shows don’t want competitionfrom surgically-altered animals. But dog shows have an evenbetter reason: winning dogs often command high prices forproducing puppies, but if their winning traits come fromsurgery, they won’t be able to pass them on.

In bbcnews.com, Steve Kingstone quotes dog owner Anita Alt,who has had plastic surgery done on her miniature schnauzerBrutus. She says, “We imported Brutus from Argentina to be ashow dog.”
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One of the first signs of global warming is missingbirds andinsects. As the weather changes, they’re turning up in newplaces and missing from their old haunts. Since some birdsand butterflies migrate annually, they may also be confusedby the pole shift, which is in progress right now.

The number of Red Admiral, Orange Sulphur and Painted Ladybutterflies in the Chicago area has dropped dramaticallythis summer. Naturalist Jack Pomatto says, “I don’t know ifit’s because of the drought or the cold summer or thestrange weather, but it’s a disappointment.”
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We recently wrote about abig wave thatwill inevitably drown the East Coast of the U.S.?but nobodyknows when it will come. This will happen when a collapsingvolcano in the Canary Islands finally drops into the sea.But now oceanographer Russell Wynn says, “?If you drop abrick into a bath [tub] you get a big splash, but if youbreak that brick up into several pieces and drop them in oneby one, you get several small splashes. Therefore amulti-stage failure would certainly not generate tsunamiscapable of damaging the coastlines of southern England orthe American east coast….”
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Many of us make our New Year’s resolutions in the fall,instead of in January. Want to finallylose weight, learn to controlyour future (and others’ too), learn aboutyour past, learn how toget lucky and getwhat you really want out of life?

Maybe you’re curious and want to know more aboutBigfoot andmind control andsecret labs andsecret messages and theend of the world?not to mentionET.
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