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Cement mixers in Rawabi, a planned Palestinian town in the West Bank, about 25 miles north of Jerusalem. Emily Harris/NPR hide caption

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The Complications Of Getting Running Water In The West Bank

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Viola Liuzzo carries her shoes while walking with other civil rights activist before she was shot and killed in Alabama. Liuzzo-Prado says her mother walked barefoot whenever she could. "She just hated shoes." When her body was removed from the car she was shot in, she was barefoot. Courtesy of the Liuzzo family hide caption

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Killed For Taking Part In 'Everybody's Fight'

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Belgian Blue bulls look like they are made of muscle because they have a mutation in the gene that codes for the protein myostatin. In humans, as in other types of cattle, myostatin normally limits the number of muscle fibers that form before birth and then limits the growth of those fibers later on. Courtesy of Se-Jin Lee and Alexandra McPherron/PNAS hide caption

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New Muscle Drugs Could Be The Next Big Thing In Sports Doping

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A Seamless sticker is displayed next to the menu in the window of a restaurant in New York's Times Square on Saturday. Rivals Seamless and GrubHub said Friday that they have completed their combination, creating an online takeout company covering about 25,000 restaurants in 500 cities. Mary Altaffer/AP hide caption

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Food Delivery Hits The Web, But Restaurants Pay The Price

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Years of rapid industrial expansion have left many parts of China contending with thick smog and dirty water. Vincent Yu/AP/DAPD hide caption

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Too Much, Too Fast: China Sees Backlash From Massive Growth

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An American soldier reads a letter from home, while taking a break from repairing a tank tread in Lang Vei, Vietnam, in March 1971. David Burnett/Contact Press Images hide caption

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Haunting Images Chronicle 165 Years Of A World At War

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Volunteers at the Queens Library in the Far Rockaway section of Queens hand out coats to people affected by Hurricane Sandy. AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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For Disaster Preparedness: Pack A Library Card?

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