Hits and Hot Dogs Under a Lox-Colored Sky
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PETAH TIKA, Israel "Ladies and gentlemen," the voice over the portable speakers intoned, "please rise for the singing of 'Hatikva.' " About 75 people stood up from plank-board bleachers as Israel's national anthem filled the twilight. Only a few sang the Hebrew words, though, because only a few knew...
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In this farming community where nightfall usually brings clear, starry skies, residents are abuzz over reported sightings of what many believe is a UFO.
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It's been likened to a pasture and a parking lot. The outfield surface at Wrigley Field has been taking hits from opposing players because of its rough patches, small holes, and uneven terrain.
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Fenway franks and Rocky Mountains. Ski slopes and baked beans. Not a bad setting for the final act of October.
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Instead of using my iPhone and Twittergram to post real-time pictures, I used the Nikon and took higher resolution pictures.  The leaves are turning, and the sun was out after a huge rain. I thought there would be some good pictures, and there were.   Click on the picture above to see the set.
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE WARHORSE, Iraq On Tuesday afternoon, the sky above Baqubah changed from its usual blue to the ominous sepia of Western movies, Dust Bowl photographs and, yes, Iraqi sandstorms.
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Have you ever visited New York on a hot day and seen that haze that appears to hover at the end the street? Is it diesel exhaust? The Con Ed plant? A Korean barbecue?
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Data sent back by the Huygens space  probe from the Saturnian moon Titan show a frozen, orange world  shrouded in a methane-rich haze with dark ice rocks dotting a  riverbed-like surface the consistency of wet sand, scientists  said on Saturday.
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By Dick Harmon Deseret Morning News  Maybe this dusty, sandy, gateway to Zions really is on the verge of exploding.  Folks around here have heard all kinds of talk of more exotic golf courses, condos, big residential developments, parks and highways for years.
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ARIZONA SKY VILLAGE, Arizona  - When night falls over the empty desert, retiree Jim Algots climbs the wooden steps to his observatory, dims the lights and rolls back the roof to reveal an ink-black sky.
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Utah flying munition caught on camera Once in a while, something really interesting pops up on Google Earth, and we're obliged today to reader Christopher Wagner for pointing us the direction of this spendid find in the skies above Utah:â¦
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the sun is hot, so harvest the heat to make ice cubes.
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By SUDDABY, Reon  A very dry summer and high temperatures have the region's fire crews on alert -- and hoping for rain. Reon Suddaby reports.   --------------------   Fire crews are on high alert as the Waikato bakes in one of the driest summers on record.
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Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the wilderness is encroaching. Packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, the 73-year-old says, and wild boar trample through her cornfield. And she says fox, rabbits and snakes infest the meadows near her tumbledown cottage.
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The earth shakes briefly in Berlin's Mittelheide city park, and a cloud of rain-soaked dirt rises over the ferns in the woods. Police have just detonated a football-sized anti-tank grenade from World War II.
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With a blast of hot wind at his back, Stuart Appleby sent a 6-iron towering into the blue sky over Royal Liverpool and toward the 14th green, squinting in search of a puff of smoke on the ground that would indicate his shot came back to earth.
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Plus, (hot) dog of the day, HP's changing with the times, and airfares head north by Northwest.