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• Chicken soup for stressed-out pandas
Pandas' diets usually consist mostly of bamboo, but they also can eat meat and He said in the wild they sometimes catch insects and small birds. Xiwang and Weiwei arrived at the Wuhan Zoo in June from the Wolong Nature Reserve in neighboring Sichuan ...
• Columbia astronaut's diary goes on display
... searchers found 37 pages from Ramon's diary, wet and crumpled, in a field just outside the U.S. town of Palestine, Texas. The diary survived extreme heat in the explosion, extreme atmospheric cold, and then "was attacked by microorganisms and insects ...
• Birds no longer flock to beach flattened by Ike
Plant material is dying, insects and seeds are not there any more. The habitat's changed and the birds have got to live. They probably moved somewhere else because it's not very suitable." Jimmie Stone, 67, looked at a pile of palm trees that used to ...
• The iPhone Apps Sweepstakes
Users of the iPhone couldn't get enough of the $7.99 Bullfrog Touch, which pits a ravenous swampland amphibian against a swarm of invading insects. After two weeks, reality set in. "People moved on," Trainer says. The number of nifty new software ...
• College students sold on stripper poles
Incredible edible insects A Japanese fan club for wasps has added the insects to rice crackers, saying the result adds a waspish flavor to the traditional fare. The jibachi senbei, or digger wasp rice crackers, are made in the town of Omachi 120 miles ...