"When it was reported Tuesday that Maine State Police arrested a man last week who is suspected of committing more than 1,000 burglaries, slipping into camps at night to steal supplies to support his existence as a hermit, many people had the same question: Is it really possible that the “Hermit” burglar, 47-year-old Christopher Knight, survived in the Maine wilderness for more than a quarter of a century? Without a campfire? Without any human contact? Jodie Mosher-Towle, newsletter writer and board member of the North Pond Association Jodie Mosher-Towle grew up in Smithfield and has been talking with neighbors about the “North Pond Hermit” for the past 20 years. The legend grew as owners of camps and homes on the southern end of North Pond reported being burglarized repeatedly." info@als-alexander.orgor interalex1@yahoo.com
"BEIRUT - The Syrian regime has carried out indiscriminate and sometimes deliberate airstrikes against civilians that have killed at least 4,300 people since last summer, an international human rights group said today.
Human Rights Watch said Syrian fighter jets have deliberately targeted bakeries, breadlines and hospitals in the country’s northern region.
Parts of northern Syria - especially areas along the border with Turkey - have in the past months fallen under the control of rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Al Assad, including several neighbourhoods of the northern city of Aleppo, which is the country’s largest urban centre." info@als-alexander.orgor interalex1@yahoo.com
"By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer
Published: 04/10/2013 01:04 PM EDT on LiveScience
Embryonic dinosaurs kicked and wiggled in the egg, a new discovery of a baby-dino-bone bed suggests.
The bones, all from not-yet-hatched embryonic dinosaurs, are among the oldest dinosaur-embryo fossils ever found. What's more, the embryo fossils came from separate nests and the dino embryos were at different stages of development when they died — two discoveries that will enable researchers to study how dinosaurs developed before hatching.
"It tells us quite a bit about early embryonic stages and changes that occur in the embryonic life of these animals — something we haven't really seen before," said study researcher Robert Reisz, a paleontologist at the University of Toronto." info@als-alexander.orgor interalex1@yahoo.com
"(CNN) -- North Korea has raised at least one missile into its upright firing position, feeding concerns that a launch is imminent, a U.S. official told CNN Thursday.
This comes as the world continued to keep watch for a possible missile launch by the secretive government, and a day before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to arrive in the region.
In the latest daily tough talk from the North, a government agency is quoted by the state-run media as saying that "war can break out any moment."
The South Koreans -- who've heard the cross-border bombast before -- are taking the swagger in stride. Washington regards much of the North's saber rattling as bluster." info@als-alexander.orgor interalex1@yahoo.com
"(SUWANEE, Ga.) — It’s a call that firefighters routinely respond to — a report of a medical emergency.
But when five firefighters answered one in a neighborhood north of Atlanta on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said, they encountered an armed man who demanded that his cable and power be turned back on at the house, which was in foreclosure.
The firefighters were held for hours, with one firefighter allowed to leave to move a fire truck. But with police later fearing the remaining firefighters were in immediate danger, SWAT teams set off a stun blast and stormed the house, and the gunman was shot dead during an exchange of gunfire, authorities said." info@als-alexander.orgor interalex1@yahoo.com
[Apr 10, 2013] Amnesty International report claims death penalty is declining ... today is our daily snapshot of the top news... co.uk at 03.42 EDT on Wednesday 10 April 2013 ...
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"Abbey, who stripped off for Hunger magazine, showed off her skinny frame in numerous provocative poses - in one she curled up in a ball flaunting bit of side boob and in another her nipples are entirely visible.
While we think she could do with a good plate of carbs, Abbey definitely knows how to strike a pose, but then aside from being wife to Peter Crouch and occasional TV presenter, she did make her name as a model.
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