Thursday, July 17, 2008

News Bits



Couldn't believe this when I read it I mean $383,000 for logos? But someone pointed out that letterheads, signs, and other symbols have to be changed.


"Since 1996, a kind of infectious cancer that causes facial tumors has been killing them off. It’s spread by biting, something devils do for social interaction, especially when mating.The tumors grow so large and fast that infected animals no longer can eat, so they starve to death. In some places, devil populations have fallen by as much as 90 percent."
Before the cancer appeared, virtually all female devils reached sexual maturity at age two and produced several litters of young by five or six. Very few female devils were capable of breeding at age one.These days, very few Tasmanian devils reach prime reproductive age; most die at two or three years. But the number capable of breeding at the age of one — what scientists call “precocious breeding” — has jumped 16-fold
James Patrick Edmonds and Allison Jayne Raski, both of Creve Coeur, were couple No. 11 of the 25 who got married Wednesday at the St. Louis County Courthouse in Clayton.Edmonds, now a Chicago Cub, was better known to Cardinals fans for whom he patrolled center field at Busch Stadium for eight years as Jim Edmonds or "Jimmy Ballgame.''

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