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9/12    http://www.cnn.com/offbeat/gallery/content2.html  $200 GWBush currency
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Untitled. Chick trick Chicks in Easter-egg colors feed at Triple D Farm and Hatchery in Palmer, Alaska. The hatchery sells a few hundred for the two weeks leading up to Easter each year. Owner Anthony Schmidt says a nontoxic dye is injected into eggs before the chicks hatch, coloring their down. The birds natural coloring returns as they grow feathers.