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Squirrel injures 18 people in two days of attacks in Buckley

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Corinne ReynoldsCorinne Reynolds saw the squirrel as a friend initially - but then became concerned about its behaviourA grey squirrel which attacked and injured 18 people has been captured and put down. The animal earned itself the nickname Stripe after the vicious character in the film Gremlins. It started attacking people in Buckley, Flintshire, last week over a two-day period. This was much to the distress of Corinne Reynolds, 65, who had fed it since March and said it was a " Read More...

The FDA Approves the Pill | American Experience | Official Site

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The Pill | Article The FDA Approves the Pill On October 29, 1959, the pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle filed an application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to license their drug Enovid for use as an oral contraceptive. Less than a decade after birth control activist Margaret Sanger first told scientist Gregory Pincus about her hopes for a "magic pill," it appeared that success was imminent. Hopes For Quick Approval Read More...

Why German divisions remain, 30 years after fall of the Berlin Wall

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Judy Woodruff: As we reported earlier, this weekend marks the 30th anniversary of one of the most important historic events of the 20th century, the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. The East German dictatorship collapsed, and, shortly afterwards, so did other totalitarian regimes across the former Soviet Bloc. As the wall fell, so then did the Iron Curtain. But, as special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports from Berlin, Germany may have been politically reunified, but, in many ways, it is still divided. Read More...

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