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World Open Window Day leads today's complete edition for United States.
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A day for fresh air, street sounds, weather changes, curtains, neighbors, and the way a room becomes part of a place.
You spot tropical birds like the bananaquit and magnificent frigatebird, along with iguanas and sea turtles in the British Virgin Islands. You notice that islanders favor dogs and cats as household pets, with some keeping tropical fish and parrots. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, killing 2,403 Americans and sinking the USS Arizona. In Honolulu, survivors and veterans gather at the memorial, which sits above the sunken battleship. Oil still leaks from the Arizona, a drop at a time, surfacing like a black tear. The survivors call it "the tears of the Arizona."