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1. Reptiles - Snakes (Rainforest Reptile Refuge Society)
   Provides a description and picture of pythons, green snakes, and anacondas. 11-00

2. Snakes

3. Exotic Pets (Planet-Pets.com)
   Provides descriptions, pictures, and suggestions for the care and feeding of Chinchillas, Ferrets, Frogs, Gerbils, Goats, Guinea Pigs, Hamsters, Hedgehogs, Llamas, Prairie Dogs, Rats, Snakes, Sugar Gliders, Tarantulas, and Zebus. 8-00

4. What Is the West Bank Wall? (BBC News)
   "The West Bank 'security fence' has been highly controversial ever since the Israeli government decided to build it in 2002."
   
   "After initial hesitation, the government adopted the plan saying it was essential to prevent Palestinian would-be suicide bombers from entering Israel and attacking Israeli civilians, as has happened many times during the Palestinian intifada."
   
   "Pro-settlement objections have been largely assuaged by the fact that the structure is not being built on Israel's pre-1967 boundary, but snakes several kilometres into the West Bank to link settlements up to Israel."
   
   "For Israel's critics, the plan epitomises everything that is wrong with Israel's occupation of Palestinian land and its approach to making peace with its Arab neighbours."
   
   "Palestinian land is confiscated to build the barrier; hundreds of Palestinian farmers and traders are cut off from their land and means of economic survival. Most significantly, it creates 'facts on the ground' and imposes unilateral solutions which preclude negotiated agreements in the future."
   
   "The impact of the plan has been felt most acutely in Qalqilya itself, once known as the West Bank's 'fruit basket', which lies within a tight loop in the wall. It is cut off on three sides - from the farms which supply its markets and the region's second-largest water sources in the region. Access to the 40,000-inhabitant town will pass through a single Israeli checkpoint."
   
   "Two separate court challenges are being made to the barrier, one in The Hague and the other in Israel itself." 2-04

5. Snake Types (Encyclopedia.com)
   "The approximately 2,700 snake species, of which about four fifths are nonvenomous, are distributed throughout the temperate and tropical zones of the world (except in New Zealand, Ireland, and some isolated oceanic islands) and are found in greatest profusion in the tropics."
   
   "Among the harmless colubrid snakes of North America are the garter snakes (including the ribbon snake), the water snakes, the green, or grass, snakes, the black snakes , the racers , the king snakes (including the milk snake), and the bull, hognose, and rat snakes. The family Boidae ( boas and pythons ) includes the world's largest snakes, the South American anaconda and the Asian reticulated python, as well as the smaller boa constrictor and the tree and sand boas." 
   
   "Most poisonous New World snakes belong to the pit viper family; these include the copperhead , water moccasin , rattlesnake , fer-de-lance, and bushmaster . Venomous Old World snakes are the true vipers , including the adder and the asp , and members of the cobra family, including the mamba of Africa and the krait of Asia. The poisonous coral snakes of the New World also belong to this family. The venomous sea snakes inhabit tropical oceans." 12-04

6. Snake Types (Wikipedia.org)
   "Snakes are cold blooded legless reptiles closely related to lizards, which share the order Squamata. There are also several species of legless lizard which superficially resemble snakes, but are not otherwise related to them."
   
   Also describes how to feed snakes. 12-04

7. Shrews (Colorado Division of Wildlife)
   "The shrew has been observed performing what might be called a shrew conga line. A family of mother and young will fall into line one behind the other, the first young grasping the fur around the mother’s tail, the next grabbing the rear of the first baby and on down the line. The line then snakes its way through the undergrowth. By mimicking the movement of a snake, this may be a protective behavior that gives the family of tiny shrews some safety from predators." 4-05

8. -04-24-06 Using the Tongue for Super Powers (ABC News)
   "In their quest to create the super warrior of the future, some military researchers aren't focusing on organs like muscles or hearts. They're looking at tongues."
   
   "By routing signals from helmet-mounted cameras, sonar and other equipment through the tongue to the brain, they hope to give elite soldiers superhuman senses similar to owls, snakes and fish." 04-06

9. -09-15-08 Ike Leaves Devastation in Texas (MSNBC News)
   "Residents who didn't leave ahead of Ike wait for ice, water and ready-to-eat meals at a FEMA site in Houston on Monday. In nearby Galveston, hungry and exhausted residents were urged to leave that city as relief supplies failed to meet demand."
   
   "A humanitarian crisis unfolded Monday along the Texas coast as thousands of Hurricane Ike victims clamored for food, water, electricity and gasoline — and found nothing much to go home to except streets littered with piles of debris, spewing sewage, and floodwaters crawling with snakes and alligators." 09-08