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British competitive eater Leah Shutkever has reclaimed the official Guinness World Records title for the fastest time to eat a burrito, finishing a massive 1.35-pound (613-gram) burrito in a blistering 30.75 seconds on August 4 at Guinness World Records headquarters in London. The feat not only beat the previous record held by American speed-eating queen Miki Sudo (31.47 seconds) but also shaved nearly 1.7...

— A viral post this week from the celebrity-news account @pubity has resurfaced a year-old Oregon story that conservation researchers say quietly became one of the most watched wetland-restoration experiments in the American West: a retired orthopedic surgeon who bulldozed 70 acres of his barley operation into a managed wetland that now hosts more than 140 bird species, tens of thousands of waterfowl,...