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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Public safety is the primary goal,” said James F. Burns, public information officer for the Cambridge Fire Department. He said the department had responded to calls about old hand grenades and pistols but that this was the first cannonball removal he had encountered...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bomb Squad Called To Fetch Cannonball | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...Advance Sales Sure, people were lined up with tickets in hand for Heath Ledger's posthumous turn in The Dark Knight, but Jackson has a more enthusiastic and far more universal fan base, now encouraged by the pressure of a deadline. Sony made a hard push for advance ticket sales over and above what most movies command, with the same thrust and hype that live-concert sales get. The result has been impressive: since the Sept. 27 on-sale date, there have been reports of 1,600 advance sellouts. "This is a movie that's tailormade for advance ticketing," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing This Is It: How Sony Created a Global Event | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

According to a UHS statement, UHS has slightly more than 2,000 seasonal flu vaccines left in stock when combined with vaccines on hand and those obtained from other providers...

Author: By Manning Ding and Danielle J. Kolin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: UHS Receives More Vaccine | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...gives circuses until June 2010 to hand over their animals. Llamas, ponies and dogs, the most common performers here, can be easily reintegrated into comfortable habitats. And the country's performing tigers and bears have already been taken to neighboring countries by the owners of larger circuses to avoid confiscation. But small, family-owned circuses are unlikely to flee the country, which will leave two dozen lions and primates needing new homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia's Freed Circus Animals Need Homes | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...part by several acts of animal cruelty by his father's men. When they lived in Sudan, one of the family guards killed Omar's pet monkey by running it over with a truck, explaining that the creature was in fact a Jew turned into a monkey by the hand of God. Later, Omar learned that it was his father who taught the guard that monkeys were Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Son Speaks | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

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