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10 best books of February (plus one), according to Amazon's editors
Amazon editorial director Sara Nelson discusses Amazon's picks for the 10 best releases of February.
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Baseball fans: Take a quick tour of all 30 major league ballparks
Authors Josh Pahigian and Kevin O’Connell explore America's major league ballparks in "The Ultimate Baseball Road."
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The 100 best books of all time
How many of these "100 best books of all time" have you read?
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MLB Opening Day: Looking back at 100 years of baseball history
To get a sense of the historic arc Major League Baseball has taken over just the past 100 years, hop on our time machine and review some of its key news and developments at 10-year intervals, beginning in 1912.
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In Pictures: Funny animal faces
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Leonhard Euler: Prolific writer, pioneering mathematician, and theorist nonpareil
The Google homepage today honors the mathematician Leonhard Euler, who was born 306 years ago today.
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Jobs report for March a disappointment. What happened?
The US economy created only 88,000 jobs last month. Possible factors include the increase in payroll taxes, which went into effect at the beginning of the year, and the tailing off of repairs from superstorm Sandy.
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Difference Maker
Russian teen's goal: an educational blog that doesn't bore his fellow studentsStudents from all over Russia visit the 16-year-old's site, The Blog of a School Wise Guy, to learn about math, physics, literature, new scientific breakthroughs, or just curious facts.
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With Steven Seagal in tow, Putin pushes for Soviet-era phys-ed revival
The Russian president said that a revival of the Soviet-era mass physical training program, albeit in a less ideological form, is necessary for the health of his country's children.
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A new form of microbe in Antarctic lake?
Russian scientists say that they have detected an "unidentified and unclassified" bacterium from a giant lake locked under Antarctic ice. But some have suggested that the samples could have been contaminated.
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Van Cliburn: A piano virtuoso who transcended Cold War (+video)
Van Cliburn passed away Wednesday at his Texas home. Van Cliburn, a Grammy award-winning classical pianist, was a star in both the US and Russia.
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Chapter & Verse Russian meteorite: Not the first strange event in the skies of Siberia
Science writer Surendra Verma looks back at the 'Tunguska event,' a mysterious occurrence in Siberia in 1908 which, like the 2013 meteorite, caused injuries and damage when the sky exploded.
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Russian asteroid highlights astronomers' challenge: predicting such space objects
Astronomers have cataloged about 95 percent of the space objects wider than half a mile – those that could destroy civilization. But they have found less than 1 percent of the objects 100 feet across or larger, a class that includes the asteroid that flitted past Earth on Friday.
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Meteorite - not the end of the world - strikes Russia's Siberia (+video)
A bus-sized meteor exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains, sparking speculation about everything from a missile attack to the end of the world. The shock waves smashed windows and damaged buildings.
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IOC head Rogge to meet with head of wrestling association
Jacques Rogge, the head of the International Olympic Committee, will sit down with the president of wrestling's governing body to talk about ways to keep wrestling in the 2020 Olympics.
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Russian bill looks to hide gay identity, affirm democracy of the majority
The country faces two competing visions of democracy, one that emphasizes majority rule versus another that stresses minority protections.
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10 best books of February (plus one), according to Amazon's editors
Amazon editorial director Sara Nelson discusses Amazon's picks for the 10 best releases of February.
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Eugene Patterson, newspaperman worth admiring and civil rights voice, dies at 89
Pulitzer Prize-wining editor and columnist, Eugene Patterson, famous for his moving argument for civil rights in the column, 'A Flower for the Graves,' passed away Saturday. Patterson was editor of the Atlanta Constitution, as well as managing editor of the Washington Post, and editor of the St. Petersburg Times.
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Russians march in protest of American adoption ban
On Sunday, about 20,000 protesters took part in a march in Moscow, protesting a new law supported by both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia's parliament, which bans Americans from adopting Russian children.
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Global News Blog Gerard Depardieu's latest drama: a Russian passport (+video)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has given a Russian passport to the famous French movie star in what some see as part of an escalating war of words between Russia and the West.
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Gun owner map ricochet: Blogger publishes journalists' personal data
A newspaper published names and addresses of thousands of legal handgun owners, generating widespread criticism. In retaliation, a blogger mapped the names and addresses of the journalists.
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Violent dolphin deaths: $5,000 reward to find their attackers (+video)
Violent dolphin deaths are on the rise in the Gulf of Mexico. The violent attacks on dolphins include bullet wounds and hacked off fins. Five dolphin deaths are from gunshot wounds.
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Anna Karenina: Keira Knightley is literature's tragic heroine (+video)
Anna Karenia: When 'Anna Karenina' – starring Keira Knightley – gets a theatrical turn, curtains and catwalks make it a little arch.
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The Monitor's View: Good riddance, Sandy. Hello sea barriers?
Individuals and government have done much that is praiseworthy in the recovery effort following superstorm Sandy. But what should be done to prevent the next disaster?
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Coast Guard scrutiny on the Bounty's sinking begins, investigation expected to last months
The review will focus on what caused the sinking of the HMS Bounty off Cape Hatteras, Rear Adm. Steven Ratti said Friday.
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Many questions, few answers about loss of HMS Bounty to hurricane Sandy
The search continues for missing captain of the HMS Bounty, which sank Monday off Cape Hatteras, N.C., during hurricane Sandy. Rescued crew members aren't talking, leaving key questions about the tragedy unanswered.
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HMS Bounty: Search for missing captain continues (+video)
HMS Bounty Capt. Robin Walbridge was wearing a survival suit and the waters off North Carolina are warm. The US Coast Guard continues to search for Walbridge, three days after the sinking of the Bounty.
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HMS Bounty casualty claimed tie to mutinous Fletcher Christian
Claudene Christian perished in the tragic sinking Monday of a replica HMS Bounty, after the ship went down in hurricane Sandy-swept seas. She had claimed a a family tie to Fletcher Christian, chief mutineer on the original ship.
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HMS Bounty: the inside story of its final days (+video)
The HMS Bounty left New London, Conn., on Oct. 25 for a sail to St. Petersburg, Fla. It went due east to try to avoid hurricane Sandy, but the crew was mistaken in thinking the danger had been skirted.
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Global News Blog Putin joins pajama workforce, decides to work from home
Vladimir Putin's motorcade can shut down Moscow's already jammed streets for hours, much to the chagrin of commuters. So he plans to do more work at the presidential residence.
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