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Care Bears: Oopsy Does It!

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By Thomas Franklin Hart, Jill Gorey, Linda Edwards, Muriel Fahrion, Ralph E. Shaffer, Barbara Herndon, Elena Kucharik, Dave Polter, Clark Wiley
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Oopsy Bear, Cheer Bear, Funshine Bear, Share Bear, dan Grumpy Bear sedang membangun taman hiburan baru bernama WooHoo World di Care-a-Lot. Setiap beruang punya tugas masing- masing, sementara Oopsy bertanggung jawab mengecat rel wahana Funderbolt. Namun seperti biasa, Oopsy ceroboh dan memicu kekacauan berantai yang merusak banyak bagian taman. Teman- temannya pun panik karena pembukaan taman sudah semakin dekat. Merasa bersalah, Oopsy ingin membantu memperbaiki keadaan.
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Will Russian Missiles, Not Stars, Fall on Alabama?

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By Ralph E. Shaffer
| LA Progressive Verified
In 1934 lyricist Mitchell Parish, who loved to write songs about stars ("Stardust"), entitled his hit song of that year "Stars Fell On Alabama." The song had ties to a meteor shower that was reported over the state a century earlier. If Parish were writing today, it may not be stars falling on Alabama. Instead, he might have fashioned a tune about a shower of ICBMs falling on Alabama. Well, not the whole state.
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The Rape of Owens Valley

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By Ralph E. Shaffer
| LA Progressive Verified
In 1933 muckraker Morrow Mayo published " Los Angeles," a scathing look at the dark side of the city in a series of essays that drove Angelenos wild. I read Mayo's book as a 15 year-old at the Compton High School library and have never forgotten that chapter entitled "The Rape of Owens Valley." At 92, I still wince at Mayo's recounting of the way Los Angeles manipulated the acquisition of water rights in the valley and squelched the settlers effort to form an agricultural reclamation area.
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