Peace Train derailed by paranoia, but cool Cat lands on his feet
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It&#39;s funny how perfectly serious news stories can twig the most absurd personal anecdotes. So it went this week with the news that Yusuf Islam -- aka Cat Stevens -- had been turned away from the American border as a suspected terrorist supporter.
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Like the famed ivory-billed woodpecker, my perfect running shoe is hiding. I have been as methodical and patient as those champion bird-watchers in my search. All I have to show for it is the orthopedic version of a fuzzy photograph. Flashes of greatness have flown from my feet in some shoes. But only for brief moments, and maybe they weren't even real....
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In the nine months since escaping her travel cage at Kennedy Airport, Vivi the wayward whippet has joined the Central Park coyote, high-rise tiger, Harlem Meer caiman and Molly the fugitive feline in New York's ever-growing pantheon of urban animal legends.
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Scientists created a genetically modified mouse with no fear of felines and then put it in a room with a cat. What happened next...?
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We left Quebec City at 6 AM on our way to New York City via Montreal. It was my first train ride. I've been traveling by plane in the US for 30 years, and have seen the food go from reasonable to horrible, airline employees go from happy to surly, airport security go from somewhat inconvenient to completely ridiculous and the overall experience of plane travel go from enjoyable to barely endurable. That's really what airline travel has become, a barely endurable way to get from point A to point B. It is my hope that train travel will be a "eureka" experience.
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Â· Dislodged roll of tarpaulin caused train to be derailedÂ· Panic as passengers feared Central line bomb attack
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BROOKLYN, Ind. - A cat named Cat has been evicted from the town's police department.  Some people might be allergic to the cat and others might not want to have a cat around when they visit the police department, town Marshal Don Pearson said.
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'Moose can fly. Just not very well' You might say it was raining cats and moose. Minus the cats.â¦
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U.S. security officials diverted a D.C. bound flight and detained Yusuf Islam, formerly known as  pop singer Cat Stevens, after discovering that he had been allowed to board the plane in London even though he was on the government's no-fly list.
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A train makes an emergency stop after a dustcart is seen stationary on a rail line level crossing.
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A famed parrot showed signs of an inner life, and a bit of a temper.
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The Cat Stevens incident has its origins in a spelling mistake
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BANGOR, Maine -- Yusuf Islam, the pop star formerly known as Cat Stevens, was a "perfect gentleman" when he got dumped at Bangor International Airport last month -- unlike most of the passengers who get pitched off their flights here, the local police said.
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WASHINGTON - A London-to-Washington flight was diverted to Maine when it was discovered that passenger Yusuf Islam - formerly known as singer Cat Stevens - was on a government watch list and barred from entering the country.    United Airlines Flight 919 was en route to Dulles International Airport when the match was made Tuesday between a passenger and a name on the watch list, said Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration...
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Yusuf   Islam, the London-based artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, forced a   Washington, D.C.-bound United Airlines flight to land prematurely in   Maine Tuesday after his name popped up on a U.S. terrorist watch list.
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By Matthew Artz  FREMONT -- Two felines initially thought to be the first mountain lions ever spotted at the Fremont BART station were probably nothing more than overgrown pussycats, officials said.   At 11:11 a.m.
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The Peace Train is leaving the  station again, after almost 30 years in storage.