"Snakes" Down the Drain?
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Apparently moviegoers had enough of all the mother-bleepin'   hype about the mother-bleepin' snakes on that mother-bleepin' plane.
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Fears about the impact of the alien snakehead, or "Frankenfish," on native ecosystems appear unfounded, experts say, though much about the fish remains a mystery.
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The "backyard in a box" solves your housebound dog's toilet troubles. In Gear Factor.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil -- This building is the seventh circle of hell for anyone whose skin crawls when viewing a tangle of slithering snakes, whose spine stiffens when standing next to a teeming box of white mice, whose imagination turns baroque when contemplating the potential effects of reptile venom...
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The devil is back in Exorcist: The Beginning, and he is more disgusting than ever. Not more scary, just really yucky, in a kind of maggots-on-a-pizza-slice way.
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The slender brown-and-yellow Butler's garter snake is a mild-mannered creature that spends its time sheltering in burrows and eating earthworms. But it has sparked a heated dispute between the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and state legislators.
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By Randy Kraft, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  May 30--Controversy already has splashed an Emmaus inspection program aimed at stopping storm water from getting into sanitary sewer lines.
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By CHRISTOPHER LEONARD ST. LOUIS - A two-headed snake named &quot;We,&quot; the main attraction at the World Aquarium, has died. The 8-year-old rat snake died of natural causes during the weekend, said caretaker Leonard Sonnenschein. Most two-headed snakes survive for only a week or two.
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Tycho:  I have no time for Lair, I'm afraid.  My limited playtime with the game has only encouraged me to further limit said playtime, throttling this value until it reaches zero.  As one of the long-known exclusives, a kind of cult has formed around the game - one whose creed hinges on the glorious arrival of their reptile saint.  It is a weird hunger, one quite outside reality, and it would be best to manage those expectations before their piss-smelling vagrant messiah stumbles into the retail channel.
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U.S. scientists found some non-poisonous snakes have devised an unusual method of warding off predators by eating toxic toads.  Although most snakes are born with poisonous bites, a species of Asian snakes borrow a dose of poison by eating toxic toads and recycle the toxins.
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By Joe Lam'l  For me, it started out innocently enough, I suppose; a simple hobby operation in the basement to pass the time and development of something to organically feed my plants with. I didn't know it would become an obsession run amok.  I'm talking about vermicomposting.
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SOAP LAKE, Wash. - Some people use scarecrows to chase away birds, or garlic to block vampires. Rick Froebe uses toilets to repel golfers.
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If you want to be up the proverbial creek Without a Paddle, be my guest. Just be forewarned: These waters are putrid. In an inept movie that makes even Catwoman seem sane, Steven Brill turns Without a Paddle into twaddle about the strength of boyhood ...
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By Dave Gustafson  daveg@wvgazette.com  When a child gets into the chemicals stored beneath the sink or a hazardous materials tank leaks in a neighborhood, there is always someone like V.
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By Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 8--They looked like modified crab traps, those dozen or so mesh-wire cages that appeared here and there in the shallows of the river slough I often fish.   I'd heard of these things -- turtle traps. They work somewhat like crab traps.
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The bronze bowl seems unremarkable until you study it from above. Then, the shallow basin suddenly seems to teem with life: etchings of tiny tadpoles, turtles and fish wriggle across the bottom and up the sides, as if trapped in a real-life pond.
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This is turning out to be more like a game of snakes and ladders than anything else. Or perhaps an analogy with chess would be better.