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POPSHeath Ledger (1979-2008) Heath Ledger already had buzz for his performance in Christopher Nolan's grittier follow-up to " Batman Begins" before his untimely death in January. His version of the Joker -- sloppier, grimier and not as comic as Nicholson's -- has already become a polarizing benchmark for those who want to debate which actor had the best Joker performance.
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POPS*jumping* Hercules! Hercules! Hercules! A hundred years young, Esther Levy celebrates after blowing out candles on her birthday cake at Sunrise Assisted Living in Yonkers, N.Y. Esther, a Holocaust survivor who is deaf and mute, was treated to a performance by the ExtraTerrestrial Circus Experiment that relied heavily on visual effects.
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POPSGot Bill? Microsoft's Bill Gates -- Albuquerque, 1977 -- was arrested on a traffic charge.
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POPSGhost in a tree Ernest Ward, a groundskeeper at Magnolia Cemetery in Maryville, Tenn., brought this oak branch cross-section into the local Daily Times. He says a former cemetery co-worker believes the face to be the spirit of one of the interred dead.
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POPSGot a light? Pull my hoof: At the National Institute of Agricultural Technology in Castelar, Argentina, scientists studying climate change have strapped plastic tanks to cows to collect their expelled gas. The slow digestive system of cattle produces methane, a potent greenhouse gas that gets far less attention than carbon dioxide in efforts to fight global warming.
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POPSNow, THAT's life You can't be too careful: In Herrsching, Germany, where temperatures hit 86 degrees, four friends guard against dehydration, heat prostration and sobriety.
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POPSPatent Pending An Iraqi baby lies in a cradle while U.S. soldiers from 1/8 Bravo Company search for weapons, explosives and information about militants in the area during a foot patrol in a neighbourhood of Mosul June 26, 2008. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
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POPSHarder baby, Harder! Stressed out? Head for the Destruction Therapy session at Castejon, northern Spain, and get in touch with your inner appliance-hater.
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POPSLuke: I *AM* your father Black Hawk frown: From the ground, it can be hard to see the faces of crewmen flying Black Hawk helicopters over Baghdad. Not that that's a bad thing.
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POPSPussynality Wearing a stationmaster's cap of Wakayama Electric Railway, the nine-year-old female tortoiseshell cat named "Tama" sits on a ticket gate at Kishi station on the Kishigawa line in the city of Kinokawa, in Wakayama prefecture, on May 22. (AFP/File/Toru Yamanaka)
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POPSWe are family, all my little kitties and me... Grade AA, extra-large kitties. Excellent scrambled or over easy: Clucker watches over two of of four kittens born to the henhouse cat on a farm in Assaria, Kan. The cat nurses the brood, but when she's off roaming, Clucker's maternal instincts kick in, and she sits on the kittens to keep them warm.
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POPSI'm gonna eat cha! OOOO! Oh, c'mon. Did I mention I have rabies? The plastic coyote scarecrow is apparently not the solution to baby geese pooping on a lawn in Tewksbury, Mass.
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POPSBaby born with 2 faces in north India The parents of an Indian infant girl born with two faces say that she is eating and breathing normally despite having two pairs of eyes and lips and two noses, in Noida, India.
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POPSMmmmm tasty! When you hammer nails into someone's feet, you've got to expect a bite in the ass ever now and then. But as Brian West of Garwood, Idaho, has been a farrier for 30 years, he's pretty used to having his butt chewed out.
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POPSThat's some hot dog Red hood, grandmother, canine in disguise. Hmm: Fifteen-year-old Guadalupe Monjaras and Mini journey to her grandmother's house in Houston.
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POPSHope they added pussynality to that mix Red light, green light: Cloning cats is nothing new, but now the clones come in two colors when exposed to ultraviolet light -- regular mint and new cinnamon. The red glow is caused by a fluorescent protein bred into the kitties by scientists at Gyeongsang National University in Jinju, South Korea. The genetic manipulation could lead to cures for human diseases, they say.
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POPSBAD SANTA, BAD!!! Skip the milk and cookies, Santa wants Marlboros! Pub-crawl Clauses set a bad example in New York.
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POPSWheeeeeeee! Chimp-a-whirl: Tatyana Tretinnikova has the best job at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia -- monkey swinger. Although, technically, 2-year-old Tisha is a chimpanzee.
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POPSCan you hear me now? Good! Need fresh smelt now, over. Hurry, over: Rehabbed and radio-equipped, Noodle Head surfaces after being released back to the Chesapeake Bay. The pup was suffering from congested lungs when he was found on a Currituck, N.C. beach. He was nursed back to health at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center.
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POPSthis is some ugly mother... Gooooood evening: Keep your eyes peeled for the Alfred Hitchcockfish on display for National Ornamental Fish Day at a Bangkok shopping mall. It appears only once in a brief cameo.
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POPSSalad on wheels A trip to the farmer's market is a breeze in Fuzhou, China, when one's Chihuahuas to do all the work.
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POPSYou gonna eat that? Sochi sushi: Two frequently asked questions in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, Russia: How old is this fish? And, how hungry am I?
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POPSFollow me! An unusual turtle goes nowhere fast at Big Al's Aquarium Supercenter in East Norriton Pa.
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POPSStudents Say 'Thank You' to Firefighters Students Say 'Thank You' to Firefighters. On Sept. 6, students in Jackson Elementary kindergarten and third-grade class created a thank-you sign to show their appreciation for the hard work of all involved in fighting the blaze. They displayed the sign near the Dunne Hill Fire Station, a stopping point for firefighters before moving on to the base camp at Christmas Hill Park in Gilroy.
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POPSHooked on cat knit? Is your dignity worth a fleeting crochet high at Pet Expo in Riga, Latvia? Just say no, Mr. Sphynx.
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POPSRobert Plant It's Robert Plant, who will regroup with guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones for the first Led Zeppelin gig in 19 years. Doesn't he look like a Anthony Hopkins? Hello Clarice... you gonna eat that?
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POPSRussian hairless cat Dressing your cat as a bunny does not necessarily make it cuter, as this entrant at a cat show in Almaty, Kazakhstan, demonstrates.
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POPSBOOOOO! If you really want to scare panda research director Wei Rongping in Ya'an, China, stop smiling.
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POPSYoki and calf I need a boost: Yoki helps her new calf to its feet after giving birth at the zoo in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary.
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POPSMaine sand castle builders seek record (AP) Maine sand castle builders seek record (AP) - 1 day ago AP - The creator of a sand castle built nearly 32 feet high to raise funds for terminally ill children and their families hopes the structure will be named the world's tallest.
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