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Beating Badwater, the hardest ultramarathon in the world
Today, you get a call from a friend. They need a favor. Would you mind spending your vacation time this summer in Death Valley, a desert where temperatures hover around 130 degrees Would you be OK with sleeping in a van, if you get to sleep at all, for three days, because you’ll be working your tail off spraying runners down with water, dunking them in ice and keeping track of everything that goes in (and — yes — out) of their body every 15 minutes so they don’t die running 135 miles in the hardest footrace on the planet “Yeah, man, it’s Badwater.
A Cool Way to Make Architecture Pay: Ice Cream!
Making a living as an architect has never been an easy proposition. Very expensive schooling is generally followed by years of laboring under another architect for slave wages — all in the hopes that, one day, a devastatingly rich patron will fund the building of their dreams.
Punk meets Islam for new generation in U.S.
The guitarist stands in front of a mirror messing with his mohawk. The drummer strikes a wild tempo.
Taliban still a major threat 8 years later
It has been nearly eight years since U.S. forces overthrew the Taliban leaders of Afghanistan, but the war against the Taliban insurgency is bloodier than ever. The number of Afghan civilians killed in the wake of the war has increased 24 percent in the first six months of this year compared with the same time period last year, according to the United Nations.
Manson’s lasting legacy: ‘Live freaky, die freaky’
Forty years ago, a group of young people led by a charismatic, 5-foot-2-inch ex-con named Charles Manson set out on a murderous spree in Los Angeles, California. They planned to spark an apocalyptic race war that Manson called "Helter Skelter," after a song by the Beatles. Over two nights in August 1969, the killers took the lives of seven people, inflicting 169 stab wounds and seven .22-caliber gunshot wounds.
Urban Animal Husbandry
Nigerian dwarf goats grow to only 21 in.
Box Office Weekend: G.I. Just-OK, Julia Delicious
North American movie theaters served as the field of combat for two action figures from ’60s TV: the Hasbro toy soldier G.I.
Football: Espanyol captain Jarque dies
Espanyol captain Daniel Jarque has died from a heart attack while on a pre-season training camp in Italy. The 26-year-old defender died at the hotel where the team were staying in the town of Coviciana
Huntelaar signs four-year AC Milan contract
AC Milan have completed the signing of Klaas-Jan Huntelaar from Real Madrid after the Dutch international striker successfully came through a medical at the San Siro on Friday. Milan announced on their official Web site that Huntelaar had signed a four-year deal. No fee for the player was disclosed but reports have suggested a figure of $21 million secured Huntelaar’s services