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When the rescued dogs arrived, the warehouse became a riot of barking, growling, whimpering - and the first loving human tones the animals had ever experienced. The population soon swelled as pregnant females delivered more than 100 puppies. The exact location of this St. Louis - area haven remained a well-guarded secret, however, because some of those puppies and dogs can be worth more than $5,000 each on the black market. (See a video of the rescued pit bulls...
...bridges aren't enough to placate locals, whose tenacious attachment to their ancestral land is mystifying to Chinese schooled in the communist principle of state ownership. At Ganglau village, a collection of shacks fronting a bay teeming with dolphins and tuna, community elder Mou Bilang complains that most villagers haven't been compensated for the loss of land once used to plant cash crops, save a $125 "dust payment" issued as an apology for the dirt the project has kicked up. "The Chinese promised us free electricity, free water supply, free job training for our boys," Bilang tells...
...mailed "Chief Perrotti" over 24 hours ago and have yet to receive a response. Meanwhile, Elis were last heard predicting "THE ENDTIMES" on Facebook. Are there no survivors? Is New Haven finally living up to its post-apocalyptic aesthetic...
...minutes - there are still major bottlenecks in getting the final sign-off for a permanent modification. And borrowers are not without fault. Some 375,000 homeowners should be eligible for permanent modifications by the end of the year, according to the Treasury Department, but some 20% of them haven't provided any of the documentation necessary to complete the process, and twice as many have parts of their paperwork missing. (Read "Q&A: The Outlook for Home Foreclosures...
...long-awaited strategy speech for Afghanistan, President Barack Obama clearly and forcibly repeated his objectives from his original plan in March - denying al-Qaeda a safe haven and reversing Taliban momentum. But he added one detail that stunned many Afghans. All this would be achieved within 18 months, at which point, it is assumed, the Afghan government would be able to stand on its own and the Afghan security forces - who are a far cry from the disciplined rows of uniformed cadets who faced Obama on Tuesday evening - would be able to take on the job of securing the battle...