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AP PHILADELPHIA - The charity for troubled youths started by Jerry
stanley thermos Sandusky more than three decades ago 151; and through which the retired Penn State assistant football coach met the boys he is charged with sexually abusing 151; said Friday it is seeking court approval to shut down and transfer its programs to a Texas-based youth ministry that serves abus
stanley ca ed and neglected children.The Second Mile said it has been financially crippled by the child-sex abuse scandal involving its founder and onetime p
stanley cup ublic face and concluded after a six-month internal review that it had no other option but to close.The State College-based charity began the legal process of dissolving itself Friday, submitting a plan to Centre County Court that would transfer its programs and millions of dollars in assets to Arrow Child Family Ministries Inc., a $36 million charity that operates in Texas, Pennsylvania, Maryland, California and Honduras. While we are sad that The Second Mile will not continue running programs, we are heartened that the important work of helping children 151; and their families 151; reach their full potential will go on, the charity s interim president and chief executive, David Woodle, said in a statement.Judge won t delay Jerry Sandusky sex abuse trialSandusky defense filing mentions Accusers 11-17 Sandusky was called likely pedophile in 1998 The announcement was widely expected after Sandusky s November arrest plunged The Second Mile into crisis. Donat Ptnc Forum Launches Campaign In Support Of Jihad In Afghanistan
A University of Haifa ecology lab that collected wild specimens of an endangered salamander got more than it expected, when one of the salamanders gave birth to an offspring with two heads. The lab also got some unwelcom
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stanley flask radioactive salamander. The Near Eastern fire salamander Salamandra infraimmaculata is listed as near
termo stanley threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which cites shrinking habitats in Israel, Lebanon and Syria as a cause for their plight. Another likely factor is increasing levels of water pollution in the region. Also, quite a few of them get run over by cars. Leon Blaustein, who heads the ecology lab, has been conducting research on the species for many years with the goal of helping the nature and parks authorities maintain the existing population and revive populations in danger. According to researchers at the lab, the salamanders act as a barometer for the general health of the environment. Because they are so sensitive to pollution and environmental changes, they are among the first species to die off. But, is pollution responsible for the dual-headed salamander Initially a statement issued by the University of Haifa said that the deformity could have been caused by contaminated water or radiation, which prompted several media outlets to call it the radioactive salamander. But Blaustein says radiation definitely isn ;t the cause
