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GATOR IN THE HOLE: The giant Texas sinkhole that formed this month is now a lake big enough to become the home of an alligator. Daisetta residents believe the reptile was washed into the 600-foot-diameter crater from surrounding swamps.
‘NATURAL DECREASE’: Pittsburgh has passed a grim demographic milestone: More people are dying in the city than are being born. What demographers call a natural decrease has been occurring for years in tiny rural towns and some retirement meccas in the South, but the phenomenon is relatively new in metropolitan areas.
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