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Ones that got away - August 12, 2008

Smuggling lions into a zoo?
‘[M]onkeys and lions were drugged, tossed into cloth sacks and dragged through smuggling tunnels under the border between Egypt and the besieged Gaza Strip before ending up in a dusty Gaza zoo’, says AP.

'Mutant Games'
John Tierney of the NY Times wants an Olympics for artificially enhanced humans.

‘Easy oil is over’ in Oman
The country is having to go high tech to get more of the black stuff, says the Washington Post.

Posted by Daniel Cressey on August 12, 2008
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