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MANCHESTER - Sir Alex Ferguson admits he has never seen a player make as impressive a debut as Wayne Rooney did on his hat-trick night for Manchester United in the Champions League on Tuesday.
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By Kathy Steele, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Jun. 20--TAMPA -- Kevin Bryant Jr. began every day ready to drop his fishing line into Bell Lake.   Hook, line and sinker, the 8-year-old was a fisherman.
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By ANN GORMAN CORRESPONDENT  PETERSBURG - Six-year-old Marissa Pattie of Springfield stood Monday morning along the edge of the Sangamon River at Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site, skipping stones with her sisters and friends and waiting for her first glimpse of a flatboat.
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By NOEL K. GALLAGHER Staff Writer  As fast as their chubby little bodies would carry them, four young harbor seal pups rescued by the Marine Animal Lifeline were returned to the sea Saturday with a plop! plop! plop! into the surf at Pine Point Beach.
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Is the icy adventure all it's cracked up to be? Penguin experts weigh in on what Happy Feet gets right&#8212;and where it's all wet.
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By DAVID JEFFS  FAMILY holidays in Woolacombe as a child always bring to mind two words - wet and windy!   Many a week I shivered behind a windbreak on the beach as rain bucketed down.
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By Anne Jungen, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  May 26--DRESBACH, Minn. -- Authorities hope the heavy boat traffic on the Mississippi River during the holiday weekend will help find the last missing child from a May 12 boat accident that killed three others.  "We need your help.
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By MIKE JOHNSON  Town of Merton - If you're a kid and it's a school day, there aren't too many better ways to spend the hours than splashing around in a lake, tromping through a swamp or hiking in a forest, all with the blessing of the principal and teachers.
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SCHOOL'S OUT FOR SUMMER -- and with temperatures hovering around 90 degrees this week, swimming is definitely a cool idea. But for many minority and low-income kids and families, there are too few opportunities to learn about safety in and near the water. The YMCA is trying to change that.
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Everyone seems to have a suggestion to get two wayward whales lingering in the Sacramento River to swim 70 miles back to the Pacific Ocean. One person suggested towing life-sized replicas of orcas behind the whales to scare the recalcitrant mother humpback and her calf. Another proposed placing a giant magnet downriver, since humpbacks are thought to navigate by an internal compass that can sense magnetic north.
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By Sandra M. Klepach, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Sep. 15--The body of a full-term baby girl was found Thursday afternoon floating in the spillway of a park lagoon in Canton, police said.
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The first animal to crawl onto land from the ocean probably looked a bit like today's salamander, and researchers have wondered how it was able to switch from swimming to walking.
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On most days, a tumor on Zvulun Muola's spinal cord keeps him confined to a wheelchair, but today he is standing on a small, wooden dinghy gliding downstream, navigating between the islands of a tropical paradise.
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FLY fisherman Brian Lillie is celebrating a hap
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She's as much an emblem, and a tourist draw, as tartan, bagpipes, and shortbread. And now Nessie's back. An amateur scientist has captured what Loch Ness Monster watchers say is among the finest footage ever taken of the elusive mythical creature reputed to swim beneath the waters of Scotland's most mysterious lake.
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Feel like a fish out of water? You may not be too far off.