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Haiti Earthquake Pictures: 3 Weeks of Survival, Strife
In the three weeks following the January 12 Haiti earthquake, aid workers have struggled to provide for the millions of survivors, who now face longer-term challenges finding basic resources and rebuilding communities.
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Groundhog Day Pictures: Punxsutawney Phil, Now and Then
The groundhog has spoken, predicting six more weeks of winter in 2010. See Punxsutawney Phil through the years—plus Groundhog Day origins and a wild woodchuck.
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Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil Sees Shadow--And Long Winter
On Groundhog Day 2010, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow—and six more weeks of winter, according to tradition. Get surprising facts behind the wacky weather prediction.
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Groundhog Day 2010 & Punxsutawney Phil: Facts Behind Forecast
With ancient origins and modern media smarts, "immortal" rodent Punxsutawney Phil rules Groundhog Day 2010. Get the surprising facts behind winter's wackiest weather prediction.
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Haiti Earthquake & Voodoo: Myths, Ritual, and Robertson
A voodoo scholar explains how Haiti's many believers may view the earthquake, why he thinks Pat Robertson's post-quake remarks were "cruel, ignorant, unforgivable"—and more.
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Mysterious Jamestown Tablet an American Rosetta Stone?
Discovered at the first permanent British settlement in America, the inscribed slate may show early colonist efforts to communicate with Indians.
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Haiti Earthquake Pictures: Devastation on the Day After
The morning after a magnitude 7 earthquake struck Haiti, the capital is in rubble and thousands await aid.
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Homo Erectus Invented "Modern" Living?
Modern human behavior may be half a million years older than thought, says a new study of an encampment built by a fish-eating, nut-processing band of human ancestors.
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Isaac Newton: Who He Was, Why Google Apples Are Falling
Today animated apples are tumbling on Google—a birthday tribute to Isaac Newton, father of gravitational theory and so much more. Find out why he still matters.
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"Blue Moon" to Shine on New Year's Eve
Howling at the full "blue moon" this New Year's Eve might be the most appropriate response: The popular definition is rooted in an editorial error, experts say.
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PHOTOS: Dolphin "Drive Hunts" Continue in Japan, Europe
Dolphin "drive" hunts, a bloody tradition denounced in the recent documentary "The Cove," continue in Japan and Denmark's Faroe Islands.
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PICTURES: Tigers Butchered for Trade at "Zoos" in China
Many Chinese tourist attractions are secretly operating as fronts for illegal tiger farming, butchering captive tigers for the multibillion-dollar black market in wildlife parts, conservationists say.
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Winter Solstice Monday: Facts on First Day of Winter
Monday, the 2009 winter solstice, is the first day of winter. Find out why it's also the year's darkest day—and yet has been celebrated for centuries.
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Shroud of Turin Not Jesus', Tomb Discovery Suggests
Archaeologists have found the only known burial shroud from a Jesus-era tomb in Jerusalem. Not only is it nothing like the Shroud of Turin, but it also held the world's earliest known leper.
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L.L. Zamenhof: Who He Was, Why He's on Google
No, Google hasn't been taken over by a foreign country. The green-and-white flag over the Google logo today is the banner of the artificial language Esperanto, flying in recognition of the 150th birthday of its inventor, L.L. Zamenhof.
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True-Color Dinosaur Pictures: First Full-Body Rendering
See the woodpecker-like dinosaur that's made history as the first to be fully and scientifically colored—and the feathery fossil that spawned the new view.
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"Super Earth" May Really Be New Planet Type: Super-Io
A planet touted as the most Earthlike outside our solar system might be molten on one side with raging volcanoes on the other, say scientists who think the rocky world CoRoT-7b is closer kin to Jupiter's moon Io.
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