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...below near the top of mount Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid, New York, and U.S. lugers Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin are wearing skintight racing suits, perched atop a 60-cm-wide sled. Martin sits behind Grimmette, legs straddling his teammate. "I've got no traction on my feet," yells Martin. Grimmette, like a longtime nanny, instantly wipes them down with his gloves. The pair, teammates for 10 years, alternate deep breaths. "All right, be aggressive," says Grimmette. "Yup," replies Martin. With that, the U.S.'s best-ever Olympic luge team shoots from the starting block. Now supine...
...cm Length of Paedocypris progenetica, the world's smallest fish, whose discovery was announced last week 3 Recorded pH level of the fish's Indonesian swamp habitat, 100 times more acidic than rain...
...cm Decrease over the past decade in the height of Lake Victoria, Africa's largest freshwater lake, due to environmental degradation...
...into some sort of little girl shape and take up a wallet-sized amount of your living space. Sadly, since companies don’t trust children of any age not to ingest everything they own, Polly was fed some growth hormones. The new genetically engineered playmate is 9 cm. high and because pockets aren’t going to cut it, you can buy a pretty Polly purse for travel, thus negating all of Polly’s appeal.The look of a character is destined to change, it’s not like Barbie hasn?...
WHAT LIES BENEATH The 7.6-magnitude earthquake was triggered by the same forces that created the Himalayas. The Indian plate of the Earth's crust is moving north at around 2 in. (5 cm) per year, driving against the Eurasian plate. Because of those movements, southern Asia is prone to devastating earthquakes. A list of the deadliest over the past decade...