Officials have tried poison, gassing and euthanasia to control a breeding frenzy among squirrels in a city park here. Now, they plan to give birth control a shot.

Under a new program to start this summer, squirrels in Palisades Park will be injected with an immuno-contraceptive vaccine to stunt their sexual development.
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NEW YORK - Today’s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and American society.
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RCMP from Lac du Bonnet rescued a deer from a coffee can last Saturday.

The two officers were on a snowmobile patrol near Pinawa when they were flagged down by a group of snowmobilers, who directed them to a two-year-old deer struggling with a coffee can stuck on its face. The animal was banging into trees and in obvious distress.
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Nearly one in three Britons think that if a woman jumps up and down, washes or urinates immediately after sex, she can prevent pregnancy.

It was one of a string of revelations in the survey carried out by the Family Planning Association (FPA) at the start of Contraceptive Awareness Week.
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A rookie drug dealer has been spared a jail sentence because of his fear of imprisonment.

Kym Sidney Tyrone O’Hara last week faced a 25-year prison term for selling $700 worth of ecstasy and methylamphetamine to friends at Port Lincoln in 2003 and 2004.
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FARMVILLE, Va. - A judge declared a mistrial in an attempted-murder case after the defense lawyer said he couldn’t continue his closing statement because he had lost his train of thought.
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Nathan Frison wants to be a superhero, with powers that can save the world, and perhaps help a 10-year-old boy.

Put simply, Frison is chasing a dream he thought flickered out in college. Back then, he had come up with an idea for a comic book, a bad-guy foursome called the Elite.
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