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MISCELLANY: EXTREME MAKEOVER: SANTA CLAUS

SENDING THE RIGHT MESSAGE TO KIDS THIS HOLIDAY

SANTA: DONIG HIS PART TO FLIGHT OBESITY

The Daily mail is reporting that the Bluewater shopping center in Kent has even set up a "Santa Boot Camp" in order to get Jolly Old Saint Nick "in shape and setting a good example to children who idolise him."

U.S.A. suffers a high percentage of obese people, for that situation is necessary this measurement to project the image of healthful people more than of aesthetics.

By Maribel Velarde.

STYLE: SIMPLE HERITAGE ROAST TURKEY

Frank Reese Jr. was the recipient in 2004 of his mentor, the great turkey breeder Norman Kardosh. When he was a boy, the old man taught Mr. Reese how to pick out a perfect Bronze.

He started crying and said, it’s you I’m leaving it to, Mr. Reese said him: I would not let these birds die off the face of the earth. Mr. Reese is now trying to save on his Good Shepherd Turkey Ranch, an 80-mile drive straight north from Wichita, look as strange as space aliens.

Mr. Reese picked out the turkeys he believes will pass the best genetic traits to the next generation. They are the birds with the right markings, the best builds for a life on pasture and the right ratio of meat to bone. By mid-November, they will be in the kitchens of people who paid as much as $209 a bird.

By Nestor Barrientos.

SCIENCE: GIRL WITH EIGHT LIMBS UNDERGOES SURGERY

The little girl named Lakshmi of two years, was born with four arms and four legs after fusing with a "parasitic twin" in the womb. On Tuesday, a team of 30 doctors at the Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, India, began a marathon surgery to remove her extra parts.
The complicated, risky surgery entails far more than removing Lakshmi's extra limbs. She has two merged spines, four kidneys, entangled
nerves, two stomach cavities and two chest cavities Lakshmi, who is named for the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth, sits with her mother, Poonam, father, Shambhu, and brother, Mithilesh, Monday.

"Everybody considers her a goddess at our village," Shambhu said.Dr. Sharan Patil talks to Lakshmi at the hospital, where the child is popular among staff and patients."She's very playful and gets along well with others," one doctor said.

By Katia Yactayo.

ECONOMY: A BATTLE OVER VENTURE CAPITAL FOR SMALL BUSINESSES

REPRESENTATIVE JASON ALTMIRE SAID BUSINESSES COULD BEEN PENALIZED FOR USING VENTURE CAPITAL.

WASHINGTON. A new legislation written by Jason Altmire, a Pennsylvania Democrat, is trying to help the small technology companies blossoming. The idea is these small businesses are able to qualify for federal research grants without being penalized for accepting venture capital money.

Is it certain that venture capitalists pour unlimited amounts of money into these fledgling businesses. It would alter the concept of a small - and independent - business.

This legislation it would be against that; it specifies that a small business could not give up an ownership stake of “50 percent or more” to a venture capital firm.


So far the legislation awaits Senate action.

By Kandy Mondragón.