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Unlikely Healer Walks on Three Paws

4 The Love Of Animals

Half a decade ago, in a little mountain town about 60 miles northeast of San Diego, a feral kitten dragged his front left leg uselessly. Our nation struggles with a medical system focused on disease, not on health, and on procedures, not on caring.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, management and husbandry are more important than the type of production system for ensuring the health and well-being of pigs. Judith Abeles San Diego, March 26, 2007 As for the environment, the pork industry prides itself on being a zero-discharge industry.

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Lost Among the Birds: A Review of a Big Year Book

10,000 Birds

At one point, Hayward, in San Diego for a pelagic that turns out to be cancelled and desperate for bird #700, must choose between a Curlew Sandpiper on Plum Island and a Blue-footed Booby in New Mexico. low points and highs.

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