Oz drafts 'batter an orphaned roo' guidelines
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Failing that, try a shotgun Oz animal protection groups are none too impressed by a draft government guide to disposing of young kangaroos (joeys) by either "forcefully swinging" their heads against a vehicle towbar or blasting them with a shotgun, Reuters reports.â¦
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A savage crocodile attack on a group of campers in northern Australia has sparked renewed calls for the partial lifting of a three-decade hunting ban aimed at saving the animals from extinction.
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Over on the Rojo blog  Chris writes:  "Thanks very much to Steve Gillmor for alerting us to a bug in how we, and other aggregators, were parsing New York Times RSS feeds. In short, stories older than 7 days or so were linking to abstracts of the articles, not the full articles themselves. This is something we will fix. Steve speculated that perhaps the "Times doesn't want server-based aggregators such as Bloglines and Rojo to consistently allow permalink access beyond seven days." Fortunately we don't see any evidence of that and in fact believe NYT has done a great job in making their content available via RSS, particularly by including a specific "partner" parameter on the URL for RSS aggr ...
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Australia is to ban alcohol and pornography in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal areas in a bid to curb child sex abuse.
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CRICKETING almanack Wisden Australia today called for a return to traditional five-Test cricket tours in place of the modern trend towards &quot;whistle-stop&quot; series.
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Rules for the Hatrrick contest.
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Australia should send 400 personalised stuffed koalas to the grieving families of the Beslan school massacre, Greens leader Bob Brown has proposed.
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MOLE CREEK, Australia -- For years, Trudy Richards searched the forests of Tasmania for the elusive creature with the head of a wolf, the pouch of a kangaroo, and the stripes of a tiger.
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By Patrick Lynch, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Feb. 12--RICHMOND -- The General Assembly is poised to create a slew of new guidelines for spreading sludge on farms.
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Feedburner feeds are being used on more and more sites.  More innovation in the RSS space is certianly a good thing.  One problem we always had is that RSS seems to have *too* much innovation. People are trying to innovate and bend and shape the RSS specification meet their needs but sometimes things can get out of control.  A recent example is what FeedBurner is doing with the 'link' element in their RSS feeds.  Lets use John Batelle's RSS feed as an example.  John has an RSS feed at:  Which is redirected to:  (I should note that FeedBurner setup a really nice CSS style for this feed but it would be nice if they added Rojo  to the list of feeds you can subscribe to... anyway... )  Now i ...
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China, widely criticized for cruelty to  animals bred for consumption, is drafting new standards on  animal slaughter to make the practice more humane, Xinhua news  agency said on Tuesday.
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Wild camels in drought-stricken  Australia are in plague proportions, damaging the environment  and property as they compete with native animals for food and  water.
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Australian authorities are considering extending the nationwide ban on horse movement after the country's first outbreak of equine influenza outbreak began to spread out of control.
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Sir, The Nelson Mail's glib and inapt title on a June 23 article "Nappies and compost cause a stink'' is inappropriate and obviously was penned by a philistine.   Compost should never "stink'' if made properly.
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Here is the coverage in The New York Times and the New York Law Journal about the denial of United for Peace and Justice's Sunday rally in Central Park (United for Peace and Justice v. Bloomberg, 111893/04), and here is what NY Supreme Court1 Justice Silbermann said:      [...] the evidence established that the department's determination was based on entirely content-neutral factors, to wit: that the Great Lawn2 was not an appropriate venue for a demonstration of this magnitude.     [...]  The Parks Department appropriately applied content-neutral regulations while leaving plaintiff with a reasonable alternate site.
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By Brian J. Pedersen, Arizona Daily Star
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Agriculture. President Bush this morning nominated Nebraska Governor Mike Johanns to serve in that post. If the Senate confirms Johanns, he will replace Ann Veneman, who recently announced her resignation.