From the birthplace of Stax and Sun Records, and the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, the pair of rapper-producers snatched soul music and put it to work for a new generation.
Woolly mammoths depended on tiny flowering plants for protein. Did the decline of the flowers cause their extinction?
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Maria "Masha" Alyokhina (left) and Nadezhda "Nadya" Tolokonnikova of the Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot speak onstage at an Amnesty International concert in Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday night.
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Chinese blacksmiths in Nuanquan (Warm Spring) Town perform a folk custom called "making trees and flowers." They throw ladles of molten iron onto a wall, creating showers of sparks. The centuries-old custom originated with blacksmiths too poor to afford fireworks. In recent years, urban tourists have flocked to this once obscure town over the Chinese New Year holiday to enjoy local folk customs.
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A Mexican guard at a prison in Tijuana where 17 men are being held on charges they were digging a drug-smuggling tunnel from Tijuana to the U.S. border at San Diego. The men say they were kidnapped and forced to do the work.
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