Timothy Treadwell, an amateur environmentalist, spent 13 summers filming himself among Alaskan grizzly bears, naming them, petting them, sometimes hand-feeding them, until one of them killed him and his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, in 2003.
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Boutayna Chokrane,
Wired News,
22 Apr. 2025
Billy and Michelle Mouw’s family farm has been hand-feeding their chickens and providing fresh eggs for 32 years.
After using the summer to feed and fatten up in Alaska, the whales migrate to Mexico in the winter to breed and give birth.
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Adrian Rodriguez,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2025
Her mother’s pullets were raised clean on a green yard, on a menu of crushed corn and wayward bugs, not manufactured in the crowd and reek of a modern-day factory farm, fattened on fish meal.
The case rocked Britain, seeming to expose a remorseless serial killer who, prosecutors said, used a bizarre range of techniques to kill her tiny, often very premature, victims: Injecting them with air, overfeeding them with milk or contaminating their feeds with insulin.
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Megan Specia,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2025
Napping after overfeeding on food is a dilemma many of us will be fortunate to face on Christmas Day.
Ask for a table on the terrace to dine alongside stunning views of the Dubai Marina skyline and Ain Dubai, the world’s tallest observation wheel, which stands beautifully illuminated under the night sky.
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Natasha Amar,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
The day is spent by many Americans either fasting, attending religious services and reenactments, or spending time with friends and families dining or engaging in activities like egg hunts.
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