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| Carlos and Fernando had tried to start their own family by stealing eggs from other flamingos at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Slimbridge. But their sitting and hatching skills impressed staff so much, that when a nest was abandoned last week, they were chosen to "adopt" the chick. |
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| Hamsters that received small doses of sildenafil, sold under the name Viagra, adjusted more quickly to laboratory simulations of a six-hour time-zone change than animals in the control group. The researchers found that a single dose of sildenafil helped the animals adapt up to 50% faster than usual. They believe that because a one-off dose had this large an effect in hamsters, the drug might offer a simple way to combat jet lag in people. ... "It's true that some people will be worried about the - let's call them side effects," Golombek says. "But if we eliminate the erectile effects [by using low doses], I don't see why people wouldn't consider taking it." |
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| It's quite hard these days, in the overcrowded field of amusingly incompetent criminality, to find someone breaking new ground. But an Oklahoma man has done that, by robbing a cinema and then leaving the stolen goods in full public view on the porch of his home. |
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| Passenger tries to smuggle 700 SNAKES ON A PLANE!!!!! |