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(ABC News By Suzan Clarke) - Every day, Cassandra Bankson wakes up, washes her face and does a makeup routine that dramatically transforms her looks.

The California teen has severe acne. It’s so bad that it covers most of her face, as well as parts of her neck, chest and back.
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(Arizona Republic) - Caleb Teodorescu slept in his hospital room, surrounded by no fewer than a dozen teddy bears, balloons and a toy truck taller than his 2-year-old self.

“He looks remarkable considering what happened to him,” said Dr. Budi Wiryawan, a pediatric intensivist at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center in Glendale.
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(Daily Mail By BETH STEBNER) - Parents who don’t think television is educational may have to think again.

Madisyn Kestell, a 10-year-old girl from Sheboygan, Wisconsin, performed CPR on her mother Kandace Seyferth after she found her unconscious at the bottom of the stairs.
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(Daily Mail) - A driver stranded in snow for three days at temperatures of minus 17 has survived by eating frozen beer.

Clifton Vial, 52, became stranded in his Toyota Tacoma 40 miles outside Nome, Alaska after plunging in a snow drift.
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(CBS Sacramento By BEN SOSENKO) - A Virginia family may have their long-lost dog back in time for the holidays after a terrier found nearly 3,000 miles away in rural Yuba County was traced back to them.

An Oregon woman, Meg Eden, was working with her dogs in the Spenceville Wildlife Area near Beale Air Force Base on Wednesday when she found what appeared to be a stray American Staffordshire terrier and pit bull mix, according to the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department.
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(Daily Mail) - A man earns up to $55,000 a year in cash by selling candy on the New York subway.

Alex ‘Tracks’ McFarland, from New York City, plies his trade on the city’s subway system and usually takes home around $150 a day.
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(Daily Mail) - With a name like Bilbo, you would have expected him to be good at finding his way out of holes.

But when the border cross lakeland terrier chased a rabbit into one, his owners feared they had seen the last of him.
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(Daily Mail) - He has successfully evaded capture for nearly three months while trekking 730 miles across mountains, deserts and highways.

But, for once, this is not the case of the fugitive gunman doing his utmost to escape the police.
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(Daily Mail By GRAHAM SMITH) - This is the incredible moment an adrenaline junkie takes tightrope walking to new heights.

Daredevil Mich Kemeter performs a delicate balancing act at a dizzying altitude of more than 3,000ft over Yosemite National Park in California.
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(Daily Mail) - A two-legged pig born without its hind legs has amazingly been taught to walk on its own.

The handicapped beast was born in July in eastern China’s Anhui Province and could have struggled to make it through its first few weeks as a piglet, according to its owner.
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