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What We've Found: Kitten death, bear mauling, terrorist innovation, preventable deaths, 15th-century tree gets the chop and the Barnes's new home
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What We've Found: Kitten death, bear mauling, terrorist innovation, preventable deaths, 15th-century tree gets the chop and the Barnes's new home
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
The latest victim in a spate of random cruelty against Philadelphia-area felines, a six-week-old kitten in Chester, died at the vet from injuries sustained while being set on fire and stoned.
A Saylorsburg, PA woman was mauled to death by her 350-lb pet black bear, Teddy, whom she had raised from cubhood in a secluded menagerie that also contained an African lion, cougar, jaguar, tiger and leopard.
Counterterrorism experts were alarmed by the news that an al-Qaeda suicide bomber was able to ingest an explosive, pass through airport security and fly to Saudi Arabia, where he detonated after a signal from his cell phone. Though the target was not killed, the incident was a striking example of the innovative terror technology being developed by al-Qaeda.
More Americans die prematurely from preventable causes -- illnesses such as diabetes, epilepsy, stroke, influenza, ulcers and pneumonia -- than almost any other industrialized nation, according to new research from the Commonwealth Fund.
A tree estimated to be over 600 years old was chopped down in its Queens neighborhood after a tree expert warned that rot had made the 70-foot-tall, 100-foot-wide colossus liable to fall over.
The new building that will house the Barnes collection of impressionist and early modern art will be a "gracious, golden-hued temple - contemporary in style," according to the Philadelphia Inquirer's architecture critic Inga Saffron. It will include the typical museum spaces that the collection doesn't have at its Merion site, such as a special-exhibits gallery, café and support spaces.
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