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62Wolfgang vs. the Squirrel III (continued)
Wolfgang was now fully in the throes of the bloodlust. He had his prey and he would have his kill. Whipping his head back and forth as violently as he was would surely have snapped the squirrel’s neck if...
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67Wolfgang vs the Squirrel III
Moving day. It seems the neighbors were none too pleased about losing a fence, and a ‘professional’ had convinced them that their precious little boy was suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder...
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62Wolfgang vs the Squirrel II
Morning came, as it does, without regard for the fact that my wife and I had slept so little. It turns out all those stories about new parents being kept awake all night were accurate after all. The merciless...
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62No Masking the Fear
The Swine Flu marches on, although the fear/excitement over it in the US seems to be on the wane. In Japan however, the panic is still rising at a fever pitch. From just a few isolated cases several weeks...
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72Good Night on the Great Wall
Late summer 1995, Badaling, China, just outside the entrance to the Great Wall. I said my goodbyes to a perpetually bewildered-looking American tourist I had helped make his way this far. I had stumbled upon...
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64Swine Time for Real Border Control?
worth a try? With 42 cases reported in 5 states so far, the US has declared a public health emergency over the rapidly expanding swine flu outbreak that seems to have originated from Mexico. The CDC confirmed...
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74Wolfgang vs The Squirrel
As evening began to settle over Dana Park and the last of the day's light reflected off the bars of the jungle gym, Wolfgang turned and spotted his foe. It was, of course, the squirrel. That squirrel. He was...
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