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Yao Ming's retirement: Why hasn't China produced a new NBA star?
feature Apparently, a massive talent pool, huge interest in basketball, and an intense state-run athletics program aren't enough
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The Obama billboard scandal
feature President Obama is featured on a new clothing-ad billboard—too bad the company didn't ask his permission
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Going to work sleepy: As bad as showing up drunk?
feature In America's culture of "sleep machismo," we're working more, but sleeping less — and new research shows drowsiness is as risky as drunkenness
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5 things Obama's 2010 March Madness bracket reveals about him
feature Was the president "mixing his hoops with his politics" when he predicted the outcome of the NCAA tournament?
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Was Twitter almost called Twitch?
feature An interview with the company's co-founder reveals the surprising origins and evolution of the social networking site's name
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Rand Paul's 5 most controversial beliefs
feature Kentucky Tea Party candidate Rand Paul has been criticized for his take on the Civil Rights Act. But that's not the only provocative position he's taken
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The 'Goldilocks planet': Proof we're not alone?
feature Astronomers have found a planet with a climate conducive to life. Now, one of them claims to have recorded a "mysterious pulse of light" emanating from it
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5 wild schemes to stop the oil spill
feature Concerned parties are proposing out-there solutions to the Gulf disaster — from nuclear weapons to the subtler power of absorbant human hair
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7 prominent people who think (or have hinted) Obama is a Muslim
feature Many people have been accused of either refusing to believe or not making it clear enough that the president is an avowed Christian
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Medicinal 'magic mushrooms': The new Prozac?
feature Why psychedelic drugs are returning as a legitimate treatment for depression
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The Mars rover's '7 minutes of terror': A guide to the planned landing
feature The $2.5 billion Curiosity rover has mere moments to go from 13,000 miles per hour to zero — and one small error could ruin everything
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Who misses George W. Bush?
feature A Minnesota billboard with a picture of former president George W. Bush asks, "Miss me yet?" Well, do you?
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The Iraq war logs WikiLeaks dump: 5 revelations
feature The secrets-sharing site has released its massive dossier on the Iraq War, detailing unreported torture, a secret body count, and a U.S.-Iranian armed skirmish
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Bigger than T-Rex: The world's largest plant-eating dinosaur
feature Scientists in Africa think they've found the remains of a new type of dinosaur: The "Angolan giant"
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