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20 most obscure team nicknames in pro sports
Most pro team nicknames make sense at some level. But there are a fair number of head-scratching nicknames. Here are 20 with explanations on their selection:
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The top 11 promposals in 2013
It's prom season. What's your prom proposal/promposal going to be?What? Wait wait wait, hold on. You're telling me you didn't write an original song, choreograph a routine for it, and present it flash mob-style to your dream high school prom date? Well, listen up rookie, you've got a lot to learn. Promposals these days are elaborately produced mating rituals — think of Planet Earth's Birds of Paradise and mash it up with your favorite episode of Glee. Then upload it to YouTube because this isn't about your exuberant manifestation of true love, it's about that special someone. Don't they deserve Internet fame? Sometimes done well enough to gain national attention – I'm looking at you Kate Upton fan – sometimes too cringeworthy to view, here are 11 promposals you need to consider before planning your own.
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Major League Baseball 2013: bobbleheads and fireworks galore for fans
Fans in the know are as likely to buy Major League Baseball tickets based on scheduled giveaways and promotions as on the opponent. Here then is a list to help introduce you to this aspect of game attendance.
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Fake identities: Manti Te'o scandal and 6 other Internet hoaxes
Believe it or not, the Manti Te'o scandal is not the first online identity hoax, nor the longest-standing. Here's a look at some of the biggest scams to surface on the Internet, from the lives and deaths of fictitious characters to the downfall of their makers.
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Evolution of the NFL: 16 ways the game has changed
Forty-seven years after the first Super Bowl was played in Los Angeles before a less-than-capacity crowd, let’s look back at some of the ways the NFL has changed.
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Rock revival, via video games
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An uneasy time in the book world
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Review: 'Sex and the City'
A glorified TV episode – and a rather middling one at that.
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Bud and blossom – symbols of hope
The longing for beauty sprouts fresh in adversity.
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How does your city’s carbon footprint stack up?
A report by the Brookings Institution looks at the 100 largest metro areas in the US, using data on residential energy consumption and highway transportation.
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Seniors record stories to preserve personal history
With notebooks, tape recorders, and video cameras, families are coaxing a lifetime of memories from beloved relatives.
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Opinion: Rethink the fight against cocaine
Drug use is up, and Colombian farmers are unfairly targeted. Let's overhaul counternarcotics.
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Where housing bust hits hard
In many metro areas, far-flung suburbs and exurbs face sharp declines in home prices.
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Barcelona floats creative solution to water crisis
This week, it began importing potable water by ship as part of a broader effort to meet needs. Its reservoirs are down to 20 percent capacity.
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Los Angeles in a stew over taco trucks
A new law could levy fines and jail time for taco-truck proprietors who idle.
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One town uses the arts to revive after hurricane Katrina
Bay St. Louis, Miss., taps painters and the cultural community nationwide to become a rare post-Katrina success story. Why are residents yelling 'Stellaaaaaaa?'
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Buried treasure: white asparagus
In Germany and the Netherlands, green asparagus plays second fiddle to the white kind.
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Memoirs: whose truth – and does it matter?
Two years after the James Frey scandal, a still-roiled genre thrives.
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Memoirs: whose truth – and does it matter?
Two years after the James Frey scandal, a still-roiled genre thrives.
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'The Fall': Tarsem Singh's take on a complex friendship
Some of the set pieces are ravishing, more often they're ravishingly clumsy.
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The last 'Parandero'
In Belize, musician Paul Nabor preserves an indigenous sound – and awaits a successor.
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Grand Canyon site of renewed mining rush
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Shareholder ire may reshape Yahoo
After failed bid, change may come through boardroom rather than courtroom, say analysts.
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