The communist leaders in China have decided to tone down some of the "threatening" slogans used by the government to promote its one-child policy.

Those to be removed include slogans such as. "One more baby means one more tomb;" "Raise fewer babies but more piggies;" and "House toppled, cows confiscated, if abortion demand rejected."

Farmers can blame it on Pres. George W. Bush if more pasture land resembles prairie dog ravaged moon-scapes as many South Dakota farms do now. That's because meddling into the endangered species list by the Bush administration, not known for protecting the environment, might have the unintended consequence of protecting that rancher's bane, the prairie dog.

In South Dakota, ranchers near the Badlands National Park say that prairie dogs protected there eat up all the parks grass, then chomp their way through pastures on nearby private land as well as pastures that ranchers rent from the federal government. That coupled with a drought has hurt area ranchers who are restricted on what they can do to combat the pests.

Brian Slocum from Litchfield, Nebraska was shocked when one of his cows gave birth to a "freak" Angus calf over the weekend.

The calf that now grazes the fields has two extra legs coming out from the back. One is a front leg and the other is a back leg. The longer of the two extra legs doesn't touch the ground but they don't interfere with the calf's mobility.

An apparently upper-caste principal of a primary school in the Bhandara district of Maharshtra, India had a new way to "purify" the school premises and children from a previously employed lower-caste teacher.

The principal sprinkled cow's urine in the school premises and on students to "purify" them from lower-caste teacher's "evil spirit." A startling reminder that caste consciousness is still prevalent in India after more than 50 years of independence.

A farmer in eastern India has a 1-year-old calf that eats his chickens. The local veterinarian has never heard of meat-eating cows and doesn't know what to make of it, but some locals have a theory that the cow was a tiger in his previous life.

According to AP, the cow's owner, Ajit Ghosh, said that at first he thought that jackals were eating his poultry. One morning he got up very early to find out what was going on.