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Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: In Australia, prisoner Andre, 55, won a Supreme Court of Western Australia ruling that denying him Vegemite was an unjustified infringement on his cultural rights, overturning a prison ban based on potential fermentation into alcohol. In Finland, the national broadcaster’s silent livestream “Pennalive,” featuring Hikka the Lagotto Romagnolo and six puppies, drew over six million viewers and is linked by researchers to oxytocin release. In Colorado, a 209-foot-wide wildlife overpass and five underpasses on I-25 cut collisions from about one per day to two in 10 months, with cameras capturing species from elk to toads. Tourists watched Abu Simbel’s biannual sunrise illumination on October 22. The SS United States, an unbroken transatlantic speed-record holder, will be sunk off Destin, Florida, to form the largest artificial reef after hazardous-material removal. 


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