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    Tuesday, August 19, 2008

    • First his leg, now his life
    STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A 90-year-old Staten Island man who was "eaten alive" by two pit bulls last month, leaving him with injuries so severe that doctors had to amputate his leg, has died.

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