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• NEW YORK (AP) -- Winston escaped death to find a piglet's paradise.
• The little piggy found wandering this summer along a bustling Queens boulevard is among hundreds of animals -- including cows, sheep, goats and chickens -- who apparently managed to flee in recent years from New York City's growing number of urban slaughter markets.
• Escaping to the streets amid honking cars and busy pedestrians comes with a beautiful reward those lucky enough to survive: a trip to an animal sanctuary in the wide open spaces north of the city where they can live out their days without fear of becoming someone's dinner.
• "None of them come to us friendly," says Susie Coston, director of the Farm Sanctuary, which has taken in more than 500 farm animals from the city in the last decade. "They know what blood smells like and they're very scared and high-strung, running to get away."
• The case of Winston, so named by newspaper readers who followed his fate, is hardly unusual. The little porker had apparently been on the lam for days in an area with many storefront slaughterhouses before he was caught by city animal-control officers. They turned him over to the sanctuary, and his home now is a five-hour drive and a world away, on a 175-acre farm in Watkins Glen, where he is free to frolic.
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• PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Amar Jones knows that high-salt Chinese takeout isn't good for his high blood pressure. But the lure of shrimp with broccoli is hard to resist.
• So he was heartened recently to hear that his favorite dish now has 20 percent less sodium thanks to a citywide effort to battle hypertension -- a major risk factor for heart disease.
• "People might think I'm being extreme, but you're probably going to save some lives," Jones said. "You might save my life."
• Organizers have recruited more than 200 eateries across Philadelphia for the

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