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Young porpoise dies after rescue from creek

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Aug. 6, 2009
A plucky young porpoise lost contact with its pod and swam through San Francisco Bay into a creek in Santa Clara on Thursday but died shortly after being pulled from the water by a team of experts from the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County. The wildly...
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Youngsters compete in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Contestants (L-R) Cooper Barth of West Long Branch, New Jersey, Eboseremhen Eigbe of Galloway, New Jersey, Jacob Bayly Hunter of Sante Fe, New Mexico and Massound Sharif of Albany, New York, all await their turns to compete during the 3rd round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. UPI/Mike Theiler