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This is a high-risk strategy. Like the male at the whale carcass, some bears don't do sharing. She stands up to make herself look bigger. The cub copies. Luckily, this bear has no appetite for a fight. There is a feeding etiquette around a seal carca

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And all this meat in one small area attract the scavenger, the short-faced bear. Led by his super sensitive nose, his long limbs carry him many miles a day in search of carrion. He's picked up a scent, but where's the carcass? Sometimes the smaller,

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A merchant sent his son to learn the Secret of Happiness from the wisest of men. The young man wandered through the desert for forty days until he reached a beautiful castle at the top of a mountain. There lived the sage that the young man was lookin

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1. The Secret Service says a letter similar to two ricin-laced letters sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been intercepted by a White House mail screening facility. The letter was addressed to President Obama and has been turned over to the

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11The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 2Say to the Israelites: 'Of all the animals that live on land, these are the ones you may eat: 3You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud. 4 'There are some that only ch

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More than 2,000 representatives of world oil and gas companies, academics and industry experts are in Houston this week for the 30th annual conference(会议) sponsored by Cambridge Energy Research Associates, or IHS-CERA. With prices rising, partly

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A 26-year-old Australian man who risked his life by diving into shark-infested waters to climb onto a rotting whale carcass has confessed that even his parents think he is an idiot. 一名26岁的澳大利亚男子为了爬上一条鲸类浮尸，冒着

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The global oil markets experienced another blow on Monday, with prices hitting their lowest in five and a half years. US crude at one point hit below $50 a barrel, while Brent dove under $53. This was related to the latest signs of oversupply. Russia

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I got a phone call from my husband the other day, Hey babe, can you take the car to get the oil changed please? It's overdue. As he works forty-five minutes from town, he rarely has time to run those errands back in Wenatchee, so he gets his secretar

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And this is just gonna be really rough-and-ready, a makeshift 这架子看上去太简陋 just a frame to carry this carcass on. 临时用来搬运驯鹿尸体已足够了 This is a typical north American way they used to carry their tepees. 这是典型