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Hotels help shelter pets find homes as lobby dogs

Hotels like Aloft Asheville are partnering with animal rescue organizations to help dogs find forever homes by fostering a "lobby dog" available for adoption.

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    ‘Chance the Snapper,’ the Alligator That Mesmerized Chicago, Is Captured - The New York Times

    Officials had been searching for the alligator for almost a week. It took someone from a warmer clime — Florida — to nab him. The story had enthralled Chicago.

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      Cute Aggression: Adorableness Overload Can Lead To Violent Urges : Shots - Health News : NPR

      Adorable babies and cute puppies can make us happy. But researchers say their cuteness can be so overwhelming that it unleashes some ugly thoughts.

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          What’s Cuter Than a Baby Cheetah? A Baby Cheetah With Its Puppy Pal - WSJ

          To give the big cats company, zoos often pair them with dogs. Lining up the best match can take time; ‘we just weren’t finding the personality we were looking for’

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              Sharks as big as small yachts spotted off California coast after 30-year absence - SFGate

              Enormous sharks, some as long as small yachts, have been spotted off the coast of Southern California after a 30-year absence.

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                Most Popular Ice Cream Flavor in America by State

                Across all 50 states in the United States, the most popular ice cream flavor in America is cookies and cream. Chocolate is also very popular.

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                  Stockton, California, Is Giving People Money - The Atlantic

                  Randomly selected Stockton residents are receiving $500 a month. The experiment might prove that guaranteed income works.

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                      Grumpy Cat found quick success. Other celebrity pets might have it harder - CNN

                      Grumpy Cat has died, but she left quite a legacy. She's one of the first pets to make big money for its owner as a successful influencer.

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                        You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquette of iPad Tipping

                        Countertop payment tablets turn gratuities into a public ordeal; ‘You press the middle button so you don’t look cheap to the people behind you in line’

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                          Same-sex mouse parents give birth via gene editing

                          Scientists delivered pups with genetic material from two moms and two dads. But only pups with two moms survived to have babies themselves.

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                            Texas Family May Have Just Won the Viral Pregnancy Announcement Game with This T-Rex Themed Photo

                            Nicole and Daniel Berkley, and their four children, dressed in orange T-Rex costumes to announce that they're expecting another baby

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                              12 Bizarre Fall Festivals You Can Only Find in America

                              Looking for more than pumpkins and fall leaves? Autumn is almost here, and there's more than pumpkin pie to celebrate. Maybe it’s the collective hangover from a summer that took away one too many brain cells, or maybe it’s a creative envelope-pus

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                                Access Denied

                                In an age of high-tech reservation systems, the Lost Kitchen is as old-school as you can get.

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                                  Study: People Born In September Are More Successful In Life

                                  Not only is September the most popular month for birthdays in terms of birth rates, but a new study suggests that those born in September may have a tendency to be more successful in life than those born in other months.

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                                    The Case Of The Mysterious Amazon Packages

                                    NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Ming Ooi, chief strategy officer at review-checking service Fakespot.com, about mystery Amazon packages showing up at the home of a retired Massachusetts couple.

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                                      She helped save his life. 28 years later, he turns up in her preemie ward — as a doctor

                                      Brandon Seminatore was stunned Vilma Wong remembered caring for him — out of the tens of thousands of kids who have passed through the unit since he was born in 1990.

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                                        What It Takes to Be a Trial Lawyer If You’re Not a Man

                                        In more than a decade of arguing cases in court, I’ve witnessed the stubborn cultural biases female attorneys must navigate to simply do their jobs.

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                                          These 20 Older Toys Are Worth Way More Than You Think

                                          Do you own any of these older toys? With newer and shinier toys being released, older toys are getting a following, some people are even willing to pay thousands for certain ones.

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                                            The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America

                                            Family life looks very different across the country, depending when women first give birth.

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                                              More than 100 goats descend on a neighborhood in Boise

                                              The goats chowed down on flowerbeds, leaves and grass before being rounded up.

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                                                Airbnb is giving four lucky winners the honor of being among the first people in thousands of years to spend the night on the Great Wall of China.

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                                                    ‘Why are you still here?’: Inside the last Blockbuster in America — The Washington Post

                                                    There were 9,000 Blockbuster video stores in 2004. As of Sunday, there is a single one left in United States.

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                                                      These Are the Best Companies to Work For in the U.S. — Bloomberg

                                                      Non-stop business knowledge Get more on The Bloomberg App Facebook Inc.—despite suffering through what could be charitably described as a turbulent year—was ranked as best place to work in 2018, according to Indeed. The career website compiled its ann

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                                                            15 American Mountain Towns Oozing With Charm — TripAdvisor

                                                            From the Adirondacks to the Rockies, these charming mountain towns deserve a moment in the sun. If you're planning a visit, consider a vacation rental from TripAdvisor—like a cozy cabin right on the hiking trails or a modern ski condo. In a land wi

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                                                              Why eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading sleep scientist — Quartz

                                                              For something that we spend a third of our lives doing (if we’re lucky), sleep is something that we know relatively little about. “Sleep is…

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                                                                Raccoon triumphs over skyscraper in a climb that captivated the internet, celebrates with cat food

                                                                The #MPRraccoon somehow found itself trapped on a building ledge — and apparently decided the only way to go was up.

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                                                                  IQ scores are falling and have been for decades, new study finds — CNN

                                                                  IQ scores have been steadily falling for the last few decades, with changes in our environment and the way we are learning thought to be reasons why, a new study suggests.

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                                                                    How Music Can Fight Prejudice

                                                                    New research from Portugal finds youngsters feel more positively toward members of an ethnic minority if they have learned songs from their culture.

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                                                                      The world is running out of Japanese people — Quartz

                                                                      Japan is shrinking. Fast. The health ministry recently announced that only 946,060 babies were born in Japan in 2017, the fewest births since official statistics…

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                                                                              Shelter dog helps boy with autism hug, kiss his mom for first time

                                                                              Due to his autism, Joey Granados never hugged his mom, Amanda -- until a shelter dog named Roxy

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                                                                                Grieving Mama Cat Who Lost All Three Babies Matched With Three Abandoned Kittens

                                                                                Mikey, an eight month old cat, was inconsolable. She had three kittens, born too early. They were weak and one by one, they died. Mikey's owner Hillary tried everything she could think of to save the babies. Watching her cat suffer, Hillary was despe...

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                                                                                  The Unmothered

                                                                                  Three and a half years after she died, I now mark Mother’s Day on my private calendar of grief.

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                                                                                      Protecting Children From Toxic Stress

                                                                                      We know that trauma in the lives of children can impair mental and physical health in adulthood. We also know how to prevent it.

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                                                                                        More Americans See Foster Youths as Adoptable, But Also Delinquent

                                                                                        The number of Americans who view foster youths as adoptable grows, but half of Americans still think they are there because of something they did

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                                                                                              Patients HIV-free for now after transplant

                                                                                              Two more HIV patients have no signs of the virus in their blood following bone marrow transplants, according to the Boston researchers who treated them.