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Amazing Cone Nebula [PIC]
Radiation from hot stars off the top of the picture illuminates and erodes this giant, gaseous pillar. Additional ultraviolet radiation causes the gas to glow, giving the pillar its red halo of light.read more | digg story
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10 Unusually Creative Ways to Reuse Ordinary Trash [PICS]
Recycling doesn’t have to be limited to helping the environment: it can also be a challenge and opportunity to ingenious designers who work with materials most people would consider waste to create amazing things. From designer airline trolleys to composite sewage building blocks, here are ten creative reuses for ordinary objects.read more | digg story
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Haunting Pics,Deceased US Soldiers Returning Home[Pulitzers]
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Pulitzer Prize winning pics (2006) for photographer’s “haunting, behind-the-scenes look at funerals for Colorado Marines who return from Iraq in caskets.” Heart breaking, moving stuff–from Rocky Mtn News photog, putting very human & specific faces on costs of war.
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World’s 8 Weirdest Hotels
Without sacrificing its estate-in-the-country dignity—or all of it, anyway—Giraffe Manor in Langata, Kenya, is arranged so that roaming giraffes can poke their heads into any open window or doorway with impunity and lather guests with their sticky, prehensile tongues.read more | digg story
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The Worst Hair in Basketball
Courting Disasters: The Worst Hair in Basketballread more | digg story
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11 Greatest Basketball Commercials Ever Made
Be like Mike, Larry, Magic, Barkley and Yao (not to mention Mars Blackmon) — at least just when watching these commercials.read more | digg story
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The Dramatic Bat
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Skiing with Over 10,000 People in Switzerland [PICS]
More than 10,000 skiers took part in the annual Engadin Ski Marathon in Switerland over the weekend. The 42.2km race starts in Maloja and finishes in S-Chanf near the Swiss mountain resort of St. Moritz, featuring some of the country’s most amazing scenery.read more | digg story
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Popularity: 11% [?]
