The week's good news: January 11, 2017

It wasn't all bad!

A duck swimming.
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1. 8th grade students create 3-D printed prosthetic leg for duck

It might be time for Peg the duck to get a new name. Peg was given the moniker when his owner, Patsy Smith of Mississippi County, Arkansas, found him shortly after he was born. Peg was missing one of his feet, and Smith believes it was probably chewed off by a turtle. Peg struggled with getting around, and Smith put out a call for help, which was answered in September by three eighth graders at Armorel High School. After 30 attempts, they were able to create a prosthetic that worked for Peg, now eight months old. Peg is able to walk and run like the average duck, and Smith told KAIT she is "just so grateful that there are people that truly care and they have gone out of their way to do all they can to make it as comfortable for the duck."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.