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albino - 1. An organism lacking pigmentation, due to genetic factors. The condition is albinism 2. A conspicuous plastid mutant involving loss of chlorophyll. [FAO]

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Outwitting South Africa's tenacious honey badgers  -  21 Aug 2007
Globe and Mail,...a hive by a Cape farmer, who was about to shoot him when he realized that this ash-coloured badger (an albino, it turned out) was a very rare specimen.

Herpetologist brings traveling reptile show to Miss-Lou  -  21 Aug 2007
Natchez Democrat,One of England’s standouts is a 100 pound albino Burmese python named Mona. “It was donated to us by a guy in Bastrop who felt it had gotten too big for him

Hunter bags albino groundhog  -  Aug 15, 2007
Houston Chronicle,He's paying $400 to have the 13-pound albino animal, which was a male, mounted by a taxidermist. It will be raised up on its hind legs in an alert position,

Albino was stoned by community - police  -  Aug 15, 2007
Independent Online,Three men arrested for allegedly stoning an albino to death will appear in the Mapulana magistrate's court near Bushbuckridge on Friday, Mpumalanga police

Rare albino shark rules deep  -  Aug 7, 2007
NEWS.com.au,This rare albino grey nurse has been spotted at Australian's best known diving and fishing spot Fish Rock. The photo of the 2.2m male was taken by Fish Rock

Jessica Alba Goes To The Dogs!  -  Aug 20, 2007
Access HollywoodThe actress took her two dogs, albino pit bull Bowie and her pug, Sid, out for a walk from her hotel in downtown Vancouver this weekend.

Twitcher captures Albino sparrows  -  Aug 1, 2007
BBC News,These leucistic birds, as they are known, are more common than a pure Albino brood. The Islandmagee birds, however, show classic Albino characteristics with

Davis gets a nice bonus with albino catfish catch  -  Aug 12, 2007
Wooster Daily Record,This past Saturday, Davis, 51, was rewarded for her time put in at the lake as she caught a 14-pound, 28 1/2-inch albino channel cat.

Sudanese gangs take to Cairo streets  -  Aug 14, 2007
Canada.com,No, there is nothing in the south," said Christopher Albino, and father of two and a former fighter in south Sudan's rebel SPLA. But in Egypt, Albino, 42,

Why Albino Foundation was set up – Epelle  -  Aug 1, 2007
The Tide,In an exclusive interview with The Tide recently in Port Harcourt, the President of Albino Foundation, Chief Jake Epelle blamed the development on ignorance

Albino deer found dead on Murray Lane  -  Jul 30, 2007
The Tennessean,An albino deer was found dead Sunday on Murray Lane in Williamson County, apparently hit by a vehicle. The carcass was near Scales Elementary School,

Albino deer dead on Murray Lane  -  Jul 29, 2007
The Tennessean,By ANNE PAINE An albino deer was found dead today on Murray Lane in Williamson County, apparently hit by a car. The deer lay near Scales Elementary School

Rare 53-pound albino catfish dies  -  Jul 27, 2007
Columbia Missourian,John Young was understandably shocked when he pulled a 53-pound albino blue catfish out of the Missouri River on July 7. Albino catfish, especially those

Albino, three-clawed lobsters surface  -  Jul 27, 2007
Mineral Wells Index,An albino lobster, which co-owner Frank Ciaramitaro calls a “ghost lobster,�? and a three-clawed lobster caught the attention of employees and owners alike.

Hide food, then grin and bear it  -  Aug 10, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle,There in the darkness 10 feet away was the silhouette of what appeared to be an albino bear standing upright. I blinked myself fully awake. The albino bear

Air traffic control gets avian assist in Oakland  -  Aug 16, 2007
Contra Costa Times,Last week we saw an albino hummingbird at the feeder. He appeared to be slightly larger than the Anna's hummingbirds, which is what we usually see.

Frugal Traveler | American Road Trip From Wyoming to Montana on Foot  -  Jul 31, 2007
New York Times,By MATT GROSS TEN THOUSAND feet above sea level, just north of the Wyoming-Montana border, lies Albino Lake, a fish-shaped oblong of icy water bounded on

It's white!  -  Aug 9, 2007
Roanoke Times,Brandetsas thought it was an albino skunk the first time he laid eyes on it. "It's the oddest looking thing. ... It's just bizarre looking," Mercer said.

Study cuts, sloughs for fluke action  -  Aug 17, 2007
Cherry Hill Courier Post,...and chartreuse bucktail tipped with a 4-inch Albino Shad Fin-S fish with a 2/0 English-style white bucktail teaser tipped with a 2-inch Gulp minnow.

Stocks rebound, close mixed  -  Aug 16, 2007
The State,...in the last half-hour of the day is where the smart institutional money is going,�? said Jack Albino, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank.

Critic's Choice for the week of August 15-22, 2007  -  Aug 14, 2007
East Bay Express,We recommend Magic Numbers, Los Lonely Boys, ALBINO!, Lamplighters Music Theater, Son de Madera, and Robert Glasper. Son de Madera plays at La Peña Monday.

Disasters and homecomings: I-Report weekly highlights  -  Aug 3, 2007
CNNOn the lighter side, Mark Rader of Pittsboro, North Carolina, sent in an intriguing photo of an albino fawn in his yard Saturday. Twice-daily feedings bring

A man with a plan  -  Aug 14, 2007
Lancaster Newspapers,Last year was Damaso Albino's first year as principal of McCaskey East High School. Iovino has been a mentor to him. "He was a person who was always willing

First Chapter  -  Aug 17, 2007
New York Times,As an albino ("not a full albino with pink eyes," Huxley remembered, "but one with very pale blue eyes and white hair just tinged with straw color"),

The Action Figures  -  Aug 16, 2007
seattlepi.com BuzzworthyMy preference has always been for the Nancy Pearl Librarian action figure and the albino bowler. Then I wandered over to the next summer service where I get

The circus comes to town  -  Aug 16, 2007
Orange County Register,By DEEPA BHARATH WESTMINSTER – Acrobats, matadors, trampoline artists, clowns and even a "snake whisperer" coaxing a Burmese albino python are expected to

Rare white Dousman deer protected by law  -  Aug 9, 2007
Greater Milwaukee Today,Not all white deer are albinos, he said, but albino and white deer are protected by law. Killing a white or albino deer is considered a criminal offense and

Angola: Sol Bank Credits Reach Usd 78 Million  -  Aug 6, 2007
AllAfrica.com,The information was released Monday in Luanda by the bank's commercial director, Albino de Azevedo. In the period in respect, the bank's deposits reached

Smart, Curious, Ticklish. Rats?  -  Jul 23, 2007
New York Times,The so-called fancy rats that people keep as pets are variants of the Norway rat, usually albino though sometimes mottled like calico cats, and bred to have

Freak show has double the fun  -  Jul 25, 2007
Columbia Daily Tribune,His collection includes a two-headed albino black rat snake named Golden Girls, albino turtles and a normal-colored two-headed turtle.

More Receptor Synths  -  Aug 1, 2007
Sonic State,First up they have announced that Rob Papen's Albino 3, BLUE and Predator are all now available from Plugorama. ‘Albino 3 from LinPlug is an amazingly

White in his backyard  -  Aug 3, 2007
Lake Country Reporter,In April, Christine Michaels said she had seen four albino deer traveling together on Highway 18 near Dousman Road. When Leonard showed his photo to other

August 14 meetings  -  Aug 13, 2007
Brownsville Herald,Albino Carrasco & Associates owns the property. Staff notes that the firm has not responded to the city’s offer of $400000 for the land.

Cancer kills 60000 albinos yearly –Foundation  -  Aug 10, 2007
The Tide,The Chief Executive Officer of the Albino Foundation Mr Jake Epelle says cancer kills 60000 albinos yearly. Epelle said this yesterday in Abuja during a

Scary ‘Ood’ back for fourth Doctor series  -  Jul 26, 2007
ic Wales,Prosthetics experts were told to come up with “bald albino things with tentacles like a sea anemone rather than a mouth�?.

Angola: Cunene - Public Administration Promotes Training in ...  -  Jul 23, 2007
AllAfrica.com,Mapess provincial director in Cunene, Oliveira Albino da Cruz, said that the seminar aims at transmitting the message on how to develop administrative

What Really Happened in Amagansett This Weekend  -  Aug 20, 2007
Gawker,Schoeneman even brought her gay albino housecleaner Marco, who cleaned during the party. Momofuku's David Chang was there with Frankie's Spuntino owner

Sol Bank Credits Reach Usd 78 Million  -  Aug 6, 2007
AngolaPress,The information was released Monday in Luanda by the bank’s commercial director, Albino de Azevedo. In the period in respect, the bank’s deposits reached

Sursok's US break on Restless  -  Aug 11, 2007
Daily Telegraph,In the same week, she landed small parts in two Hollywood films: Crossing Over, with Harrison Ford and Sean Penn, and Albino Farm.

Yepsen: Dems look to rural areas for caucus-night edge  -  Jul 26, 2007
DesMoinesRegister.com,In one town - Logan, I believe - we stopped at a shop where an albino raccoon was mounted on the wall. Since you don't see mounted albino raccoons every day

Ship passengers spot white porpoise in upper Lynn Canal  -  Jul 25, 2007
Juneau Empire (subscription),Passengers on the Yukon Queen, running between Haines and Skagway on Sunday, got a rare look at what appeared to be an albino porpoise.

Performance art will have audience, performers dancing blind  -  Aug 7, 2007
Inside Bay Area,The event, which takes its name from a kind of blind albino larval salamander found in Mexico, is something referred to as "body research.

Angola’s Banco Sol had total credits of US$ 78 million in June  -  Aug 7, 2007
Macauhub,The bank’s commercial director, Albino de Azevedo, told state news agency Angop that total deposits at the end of June were US$ 267 million, surpassing the

Long-finned Corydoras gets name  -  Aug 20, 2007
Practical Fishkeeping,An albino mutant of the new species is also reported. Corydoras longipinnis is a rheophilic species collected from fast-flowing streams amongst submerged

Old Town’s Donkey Days  -  Jul 30, 2007
Tehachapi News,Also attracting attention was “Sahara,�? a 9-foot Albino Burmese Python, one of many rescued creatures who now lives at Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue,

Bill Maher: Scariest Man In HDTV!  -  Jul 26, 2007
TVPredictions.com (press release)His pasty, Albino-like features makes the Pillsbury Doughboy look like he has a tan. So if you decide to watch The Decider, don't say I didn't warn you.

Ship passengers see rare mammal  -  Jul 25, 2007
KTUU,Federal fisheries officials say it may not have been an albino porpoise, but a Pacific white-sided dolphin not usually seen in the area.

Snape Proms  -  Aug 17, 2007
Guardian Unlimited,Erik Slik and Laura Albino made a touching couple of Don Ottavio and Donna Anna, while Vasil Garvanliev's Masetto and Elenor Bowers-Jolley's Zerlina were

Eternal Sonata  -  Aug 19, 2007
CVG Online...it gets dark - and the key to scoring major pain pointage is figuring out which of the weirdo enemies dig a tan and which have an albino-like aversion.

Late Stock Rally Almost Saves The Day  -  Aug 16, 2007
Hartford Courant,...in the last half-hour of the day is where the smart institutional money is going," said Jack Albino, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank.

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