Paris Has a Secret Subterranean Underworld
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The City of Light harbors a city of darkness, a vast network of subterranean tunnels that once gave refuge to bandits, smugglers and saints, and cradles the bones of some 6 million Parisians. Today, this eerie maze is the haunt of living spirits, from youths looking for adventure to urban explorers carving out a new frontier.
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A 48 year-old Frenchman who went missing last month has been found emaciated but alive in an underground cave system where he spent 35 days in pitch blackness eating nothing but wood and clay.
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Rock, molten metal and more rest beneath our feet. In the Wired Wiki.
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In the wake of the SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale scandal, Franceâs business aristocracy finds itself in a place it never wants to be: the spotlight.
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The killings of four prostitutes tell of a lost struggle to survive in the underground economy that flourishes alongside the shimmering casinos.
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The Red Sea, Belize and the Cayman Islands are all scuba-diving hotspots, but what about Paris? As of Friday, would-be divers can take the plunge in the landlocked French capital, with a practice dip in a pool beneath the city's most famous monument, the Eiffel Tower.
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Europe âs Mars Express is gathering data regarding the geological and atmospheric processes on the red planet -- information that might shore up the case that present-day life is percolating subsurface.
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A Mars-orbiting spacecraft has spotted a subterranean natural plumbing system that might have  ferried water beneath the surface of the red planet in the distant past.
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Blood-splotches on walls, chains hanging from a ceiling and swords on the killing floor &mdash; the artifacts left a disturbing tale of brutalities inside a suspected al-Qaida in Iraq torture chamber. But there was yet another chilling fact outside the dirt-floor dungeon.
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NASA's Mars orbiters have spotted &quot;skylights&quot; apparently leading to cavernous underground spaces on Mars.  The discovery is fueling interest in potential underground habitats and sparking searches for caverns elsewhere on the Red Planet.
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Helium isotopes reveal hidden stores of geothermal energy.
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"Hic sunt dracones," warned the black "X" on many an ancient mariner's map, marking spots in the unknown depths where dragons or serpents were thought to lurk. Since Plato's long-ago tale of the sunken island of Atlantis, humans have wondered whether lost worlds, teeming with life, might lie hidden in the ocean deeps.
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Visitors to the Eiffel Tower in Paris can skate 57m above ground while they admire one of the best views in the city.
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Nicolas Sarkozy's tough-guy image is damaged by rising crime in the Banlieue
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PARIS -- The weather was nippy and overcast and the water just chest-high, but a new scuba-diving pool in Paris has something Bali, Belize, and other diving hotspots don't: a terrific view of the Eiffel Tower.
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Even cars are at risk as floods and building sites drive out rodents from their underground lairs
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Scientists interested in the search for life on other planets often spend their time hunting for novel life forms and unique ecosystems here on Earth. The RÃÂ­o Tinto, a river in Spain with highly acidic water the color of red wine, has one group of researchers intrigued about what might be living underground.