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View Article  Illinois to Save Money by Leaving Roadkill on Roadside
by Riley Jones on Sun 01 Jun 2008 09:47 AM EDT


The view along Illinois highways this summer should be beautiful — for the turkey vultures.

The state's transportation department says it won't be picking up as much roadkill left along roads because it spent too much of its budget during the winter.

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View Article  Japanese Brewery Introduces "Space Beer"
by Riley Jones on Sun 01 Jun 2008 09:44 AM EDT


Taking beer-making to a whole new sphere, Japan's famous Sapporo Holdings Ltd. plans to launch a beer in November that's literally from out of this world. The brewery will collaborate with scientists at the Okayama University in Japan to concoct this unearthly beverage from a third generation of barley grains that spent five months on the International Space Station in 2006.

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