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NEW YORK — Ben Raisher watches as the writhing octopus on his plate has its tentacles clipped with giant shears, then squirms in amber sesame oil like a pile of bisected earthworms.
With a deft pinch of his chopsticks, the wriggling, still-alive limb is in his mouth and down his throat.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A musher from tropical Jamaica competing in a sled dog race? Yes, many thought the idea ridiculous when an adventure tourism operator there decided to build a team five years ago.

NEW YORK — As planes waited to take off from Kennedy Airport, the jargon-packed radio chatter between controllers and pilots was interrupted by a young boy’s voice: “JetBlue 171, cleared for takeoff.”

SYLVANIA, Ohio — An Ohio woman taken to a maternity ward in her wedding dress became a newlywed and a new mom on the same day.
Jamie Phillips says she felt contractions while her father walked her down the aisle during her wedding ceremony Saturday in Toledo in northwest Ohio, but she thought it was a false alarm.

VANCOUVER — The morning after a good party, that’s usually when the waves of regret roll in.
For the past few weeks, mild-mannered Vancouver has been transformed into a rollicking, shrieking street soiree. But if the party’s hosts are feeling any pangs of remorse as the reception winds down, they’re certainly not showing it.

VANCOUVER — The morning after a good party, that’s usually when the waves of regret roll in.
For the past few weeks, mild-mannered Vancouver has been transformed into a rollicking, shrieking street soiree. But if the party’s hosts are feeling any pangs of remorse as the reception winds down, they’re certainly not showing it.

CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. — Former President Bill Clinton was recovering at his suburban home Friday after leaving a Manhattan hospital where he underwent a heart procedure.
Three black SUVs with tinted windows arrived around 7:45 a.m. (1245 GMT) Friday and pulled through the high gates at the house. The hamlet of Chappaqua is about 35 miles (55 kilometres) north of New York City.