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...festering bone infection from a three-week-old fracture in her right leg that had already spread to her organs. The following morning, according to reports, Deborah was carried outside by her carers - apparently at her own request - and for eight hours she lay dying in the backyard. An autopsy revealed that one and a half liters of pus were found in her right leg. One doctor described the case as the worst bone infection he had ever seen. (See Australia apologize for displacing part-Aboriginal people...
When Cambridge resident Adam W. Fastman and his housemates on 218-220 Putnam Ave. first conceived the idea of raising chickens and ducks in their backyard, they did not foresee that their newfound “pets” would raise so much controversy among their neighbors...
...undertaking their fowl-raising project, the Fastmans and Brasher had researched Cambridge ordinances, and they noted the absence of “chicken coop” on the list of permitted uses—along with items like doghouses and bird feeders that can be easily found in many backyards, Fastman said. Finding no documented regulations against having chickens and ducks as pets in a backyard when they researched the city ordinances, the trio proceeded to build the coop and keep the birds by what they understood to be legal means...
...most parts of the world, this would seem like a completely normal arrangement for two countries to make. But this is Russia's backyard. And Moscow, which has yet to react to the Kazakh offer, may not take kindly to two of its former republics' striking an energy deal behind its back. The offer demonstrates, however, that many former Soviet states might not care anymore if they anger their former benefactor. A sense of defiance has grown in the region since the Russia-Georgia war, which proved that Moscow would not stop at economic bullying in its efforts to maintain...
...even this setting, the backyard of a typical two-story home owned by the model Keller family, provides subtext. The fading yellow façade and wilting gardens of this house suggest sickness and neglect, reflecting the stagnation of the three Kellers after their son Larry goes missing in action during...