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Three bald bears in Leipzig
Bears in a zoo in eastern Germany have lost their fur, but international experts cannot work out why.
"This problem with the spectacled bears is not just in Leipzig," Mr Noetzhold told the BBC World Service.
"There are other zoos in Europe and overseas having the same problem.
"And so we've had an international working group of zoo vets looking at this for some time already."

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Usually spectacled bears look like this

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Oh my, this looks extremely wierd

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This animal (sorry, I can't call him bear) look like a hybrid between a huge cat, an elefant and a lemur or something else

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Oh,poor bear!! I think he is on big stress.And it`s very cold for bear,he has alrefdy got accustomed to be in fell. May be it`s happen under environment influence or bed nutrition.

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Just imagine, how many people will rush now to the zoo to have a look at the poor creature. So zoo will benefit financially from this misfortune

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My guess is that the air temperature (obviously too low) in Liepzig caused this fur loss due to the fact that their naturaly live in South America where it is hot. However, I don't see the connection between these facts, usually when it is cold, the fur becomes thicker, maybe not for this specie

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I watched a documentary film on the RenTV yesterday. It was about the Large Hadron Collider and experiments around it. And there was said, that abnormal things are happening, when this experiments take place. E.g. the Bermuda Triangle activates, tornado near to Moscow.. (link about the tornado.) Of course, these are just some sciencists' guesses. However, "чем чёрт не шутит" (may be someone knows good translation of these idiom?)

May be this two things (LHC and the bears) are somehow related?

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Nyamu :

"чем чёрт не шутит" (may be someone knows good translation of these idiom?)

You never can tell

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also: devil may play any trick
and
you never know

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Зайка сыночек и лапочка дочка (2007+2009)


murrmelade
Thanks God I'm a WOMAN!

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Woman diagnosed with fear of vegetables
Vicki Larrieux, a 22-year-old student from Portsmouth, claims she is unable to keep to a healthy diet because she is frightened of vegetables.
As Daily Telegraph informs, she suffers from a fear known as lachanophobia, which leaves her sweating and stricken with panic attacks at the merest sight of a sprout or a pea.
The unusual fear affects just a few thousand people in Britain and treatments for the condition include "psychological re-programming" to control the anxious response to seeing vegetables.
Miss Larrieux's condition makes routine trips to the supermarket or a night out at a restaurant with her boyfriend Joseph Jade, 25, a major problem.

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The full list of phobias here
The most horrifying is Pentheraphobia.

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I have only one advice for Miss Larrieux's, to stop being afraid of vegetables and fight her phobia, become a vegetable, a very few tips:

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I like this variant more than other ones


I checked phobias' list and found, that my daughter has somniphobia and ablutophobia, but I have insectophobia and neopharmaphobia

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Russophobia- Fear of Russians
they are every where

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Apathy is Boring
Не стоит пытаться, или делай, или не делай

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Riska :

Russophobia- Fear of Russians they are every where

They are very difficult ot escape

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http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/quotes/deviz-novoj-kampanii-po-privlecheniyu-turistov.d?id=27928785

http://www.diena.lv/lat/politics/riga/rigas-reklamas-sauklis-ziema-easy-to-go-hard-to-leave

It is not in English, but it's really "breaking"! LOL, great slogan for Riga Read the comments... There are many additional variants of the slogan for Riga... My fave is "Easy to drink, hard to pee"

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Зорко одно лишь сердце (с)

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Teenage boy trapped on floating piece of ice with polar bears

A Canadian teenager has been rescued after he became trapped on a floating piece of ice with three polar bears.
As Daily Telegraph informs, the 17-year-old, who had been on a hunting trip with his uncle when he became stuck on the ice pan, shot one of the bears in self defence.
He was suffering from hypothermia when he was rescued.

© EPA

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Apple that stays fresh for months developed by Australian scientists


An apple that stays fresh for months has been developed by Australian scientists and could be on shop shelves by next year.
As Daily Telegraph informs :"The beauty of this fruit is that you can buy it and stick it in a fruit bowl and it will maintain its firmness, texture and crispness for up to 14 days," he said.
"Another advantage is that if it goes into longer term storage, it will retain its freshness for months on end.

But in Great Britain was launched six-button computer to get elderly online!
An easy-to-use computer aimed at the millions of elderly Britons who lack the confidence to enjoy the benefits of the web has gone on sale.
The screens of new PCs have just six buttons, allowing technology-shy users to surf the internet, send emails and watch videos without having to navigate around cluttered desktops. Read more

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Plane crashed into the VIP lounge at the Kigali airport


Source: Reuters

A Rwandair passenger plane bound for Uganda crashed into the airport VIP lounge in Rwanda's capital on Thursday and killed one passenger, officials said.
As Reuters informs: "He landed safely on the runway and was guided by the marshals into the parking area," Masozera said.
"For some unexplained reason, the plane, from the parking spot, took off again at full power and ... took a right turn, unexplained, into the technical building," he said.

Great writers 'fail' online test


BBC published the results of English exam: Winston Churchill's iconic "fight them on the beaches" speech did not make the grade when it was marked by a computer system, exam experts have said.
And extracts from modern classics such as Lord of the Flies by William Golding and a novel by Ernest Hemingway also failed to impress the computer.

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That was really one unlucky man!

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helen :

But in Great Britain was launched six-button computer to get elderly online!

My father, sure, would need one He is one of those people, who like to buy new techniques (not sure, it's the right word ), but is too lazy to carefully and deeply explore, how to use it. He suffers from lack of confidence that he will make head or tail of this too.

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Families spend four days a year arguing



Parents and children have at least three disagreements a day, with mothers causing most of the rows, according to new research..
The most common rows are over household chores, children "treating the house like a hotel", and couples taking each other for granted, a survey of 3,000 families found.
As Daily Telegraph informs: Fights flare up three times a day, usually lasting for five minutes. Families spend 91 hours a year arguing, with mothers the worst culprits for shouting and sulking.

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I'm A Celebrity kicks off with Sam Fox's water spider ordeal



The new series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! started with a bang as former Page 3 model Sam Fox and celebrity chef Gino D'Acampo were given the first bushtucker trial.
The unwitting celebrities were forced to hold water spiders in their mouths for 30 seconds and plunge their faces into an urn of crayfish and beach worms.
As Daily Mail informs Sam proved bravest in the spider task as she stood mouth agape with an impressive degree of concentration.

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Sam Fox is an English former glamour model and dance-pop singer.

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Cost of happiness discovered by Australian economist

Marriage is worth £18,000 to men, but just £9,000 to women, according to an Australian economist who claims he has discovered a formula to determine the cost of happiness.
Paul Frijters, a professor at Queensland University of Technology, has calculated a formula he claims delivers the monetary equivalent of the value of various milestones in life.
The figures represent a lump sum a person would need to receive out of the blue in order to make him or her as happy as marriage would over a lifetime.
When it comes to divorce, a man would be so devastated it would feel as if he had lost £61,500. A woman would be far less traumatised, feeling as though she had only lost £5,000.
Prof Frijters, who was this year named the best economist aged under 40, has tracked major life events of 10,000 people since 2001.
Australians were asked to describe how satisfied they were with their lives on a scale of 0 to 10.
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Professor Frijters concluded that money had a greater effect on happiness than previously thought.

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Marriage woman - £8, 726.25 man - £17, 675.68
Birth of child woman - £ 4, 866.77 man - £18, 236.39
Divorce woman - £4, 977.08 (loss) man - £61, 116.46 (loss)
Death of a loved one woman - £73, 204.86 (loss) man - £350, 830.36 (loss)
Illness woman - £28, 124.61(loss) man - £201, 264.68 (loss)
Moving house woman - £1, 453.80 (gain) man - £8, 947.11 (loss)

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What's in a name? More than you might think


(C) Reuters

A London-based translation firm is offering parents-to-be the chance to check the meaning of prospective baby names in other languages to avoid inadvertently causing their offspring future embarrassment.

Celebrity couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes might have thought twice about naming their daughter Suri if they'd known that it means "pickpocket" in Japanese, "turned sour" in French, and "horse mackerels" in Italian, suggest Today Translations.

As Reuters informs : For 1,000 pounds ($1,678), the company's linguists will carry out a "basic name translation audit" of names, checking their meaning in 100 languages, or more for an additional cost.


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Hippopotamuses attack a crocodile


See 5 pictures drama story here
A wildlife photographer has captured the moment a crocodile was killed after getting trapped in a maze of angry hippos.
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French hamster hotel lets guests live like rodents


Photo: REUTERS

A French hotel is offering guests the chance to live like a hamster for a day.
It's a unique concept according to its creators. A hotel in the French city of Nantes is offering the chance for people to become a hamster.
As Daily Telegraph informs : For 99 euros a night, visitors to the hotel in Nantes can feast on hamster grain, get a workout by running in a giant wheel and sleep in hay stacks in the suite called the "Hamster Villa".
However, the price is soon to go up as today's hamsters need, according to the owners, Wifi and a giant TV screen.