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Extreme Animal Portraits: Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Winners

Winner - Behavior: Cold-blooded Animals - A yacare caiman waits for fish to come within snapping reach in the shallow, murky waters of Brazil's Pantanal - the biggest wetland in the world. Caimans can grow to be three meters in length.

October 19, 2012 The competition celebrates the inner soul and beauty of animals from around the world.

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012

For Middle-Earth, One Family Tree To Rule Them All

A good number of dwarves will fill the screen in the upcoming movie, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, but they're just a few of the hundreds of characters J.R.R. Tolkien created for Middle-Earth.

October 14, 2012 Author J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy world Middle-Earth is filled with hundreds of characters. So many in fact, that a Swedish university student has created a comprehensive census and family tree to catalog the more than 900 humans, elves, dwarves and hobbits.

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Saturday, October 13, 2012
Friday, October 12, 2012
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The Salt

Liquid Nitrogen Cocktails: Smoking Hot Trend Or Unnecessary Risk?

A bartender prepares cocktails using liquid nitrogen at Bourbon and Branch in San Francisco.

October 10, 2012 The latest victim injured by a liquid nitrogen cocktail had to have parts of her stomach removed. Yet some in the bar business say the substance is safe when used properly. What do you think? Take our survey.

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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Casting Hopes And Dreams To Sea In A Bottle

This bottle washed up in Florida. The message inside read, "God is the answer."

October 9, 2012 A Scottish sailor set a Guinness World Record this year when he found a 98-year-old message in a bottle. Capt. Sean Bercaw has sent hundreds of his own messages in bottles and received dozens of responses. He explains why he's doing it and what kinds of responses he's gotten to his project.

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Monday, October 08, 2012

Around the Nation

In Pumpkin Regatta, It's Toothy Grins All Around

Peter Geiger lines up before the start of the pumpkin race in Damariscotta, Maine.

October 8, 2012 MPBNThe typical jack-o'-lanterns that don front stoops this time of year pale in comparison to their multihundred-pound brethren: the giant pumpkin. Every year in Damariscotta, Maine, people hollow them out, climb inside and race them.

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Sunday, October 07, 2012

World

Stateless And Stranded On American Samoa

Mikhail Sebastian lived in Los Angeles before his fateful trip to American Samoa.

October 7, 2012 Mikhail Sebastian is stateless. Born ethnically Armenian in what was then the U.S.S.R. and today is Azerbaijan, he came to the U.S. and was eventually allowed to stay and work. Now, he is stranded on American Samoa where immigration officials say he "self-deported."

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Thursday, October 04, 2012

The Picture Show

Inside Every Stormtrooper Is A Beating Heart

Sandtrooper.

October 4, 2012 Evan Prince's portraits of Star Wars bad guys at a convention show that even a Stormtrooper is capable of emotion.

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