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• Johnson's Bengals jersey to read 'Ocho Cinco'
One of the most notable name promotions in pro football was running back Rod Smart’s decision to put “He Hate Me” on the back of his XFL jersey, which became the best seller in that league’s brief history.
• Palin’s pipeline exists — but only on paper
The vice presidential hopeful, in her speech Wednesday to the Republican National Convention, said she fought to bring about "the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history" to bolster America's energy security.
• The world's coolest airport terminals
Architect Massimiliano Fuksas, who designed the 4.8 million-square-foot Shenzhen Airport in central China, says he finds the sheer scale exciting, but also loves the fact that his building will "mark the history of a city and act as a bridge between ...
• Texas drops half of cases in polygamist sect raid
The children of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints were the subject of one of the largest custody cases in U.S. history, taken into state custody from their ranch in a tiny west Texas town because child welfare authorities ...
• The last mammoths in Siberia were American
To uncover the real history of woolly mammoths, Poinar and his colleagues spent the last three years extracting ancient DNA from 160 mammoth samples over much of their former range across Europe, Asia and North America, from which they assembled a ...