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...literally dusted off a decade-old pair of ragged black leather boots sitting in her closet and visited a shoe-repair shop for the first time in her life. For a fashion-conscious woman, the thought of recycling clothing hurt her pride a bit. "I walked in with my tail between my legs," she says. "It was something, initially, I was not proud of." Then she saw the price: $16. And the work: the boots looked as good as new. "I walked out of there going, 'O.K., all right,'" Thorsen says. She proudly wore her healed heels...
...American economy, reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions, and the war in Afghanistan. But the unscripted moments of the President's first foreign visit since being elected to the White House - including a declaration of love for Canada and an impromptu visit to an Ottawa farmers' market for a beaver-tail pastry - overshadowed the official agenda...
...Canadians overlooked Obama's one faux pas - mistakenly calling Ottawa "Iowa" - and seemed to appreciate his stop at a farmers' market to wow crowds and buy a Canadian cinnamon-and-sugar pastry known as a beaver tail. He has set a higher bar for the U.S.-Canada partnership than perhaps any President before. But with the goodwill generated from his first charm offensive, his chances of success look pretty good...
...Just yanked Roar-ee's tail, twice. Talk about awkward...
...genome is not made up of protein-coding genes. In fact, 98.8% of it is not. Some of that 98.8% consists of "pseudogenes" - genes that once encoded proteins but no longer can because of a crippling mutation. They are the molecular equivalent of a vestigial tail, allowing us to see evolution's track...