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Reuters It is from this remote community in southern Kazakhstan that humans first sent a satellite, an animal, and a person into orbit. But it didn't get an MRI machine until 2011.
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Videos
Sometimes the Simplest Ideas Make the Best Pop-Ups
Five blocks of a downtown Cleveland boulevard were temporarily transformed this spring.
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Democracy in America
This Week in Bans: San Andreas Battles Wolf-Dogs
Also, Texas takes aim at drinking beer while tubing and the less said about Kenya's underwear-based moonshine, the better.
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After Deaths, Villagers Block Trucks From Dumping Bangalore's Trash
Garbage piles on the streets of the Indian city as villagers protest dump's contamination.
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Videos
From the Ashes, a Call to Heed Climate Change
Amid the wreckage of his home, a Colorado fire victim wants to warn future generations.
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Postcard
Colorado, After the Fires
Pictures of the wildfire destruction.
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Repetitive Debate of the Day: Why Hasn't Washington, D.C. Buried its Power Lines?
After yet another days-long mass power outage, it's naturally time to have the same argument all over again.
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Photos
Weirdest Idea to Save Detroit Yet: Zombies
"People just want to live for a day in a zombie apocalypse," explains Mark Siwak, the braaaaains behind Z World Detroit.
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The Social Side of Urban Earthquake Risk
Creating a better measure of non-physical urban factors in post-earthquake damage.
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Of Storefronts, Soulless Banks, and the Slow Death of Nora Ephron's Upper West Side
A walk down Broadway used to be all jangle and buzz, an urban improvisation of sound and action. Now it’s more like a prerecorded loop that repeats block after block.
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Maps
A Quest for Consensus on Boston Neighborhood Boundaries
An interactive mapping effort tries to find where locals think their neighborhoods actually are.
