It was discouraging to read Monday's lead article in Politico in which correspondent Glenn Thrush, citing Democrats in the White House and on the Hill, reported that Obama in his State of the Union will offer the GOP not an olive branch but a cattle prod.

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Thrush watched a dramatic sunset Sunday through the smoke cloud 40 miles away in Eaton, Colorado.

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The State of the Natural Environment Report claims native bird species such as the lesser spotted woodpecker, turtle dove and song thrush, as well as many butterfly species, have suffered.

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Dr Sally Hope, a GP in Oxford and chair of the primary care gynaecology group, said that women with infections such as thrush were already recommended by doctors to eat yoghurt containing live bacteria, and in some cases to insert yoghurt into the vagina.

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