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    The Week In Pictures

    Slideshow • News • ISSUE 48•31 • Aug 6, 2012
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    • Phelps Drowns

      LONDON—American swimmer Michael Phelps, who earned 21 medals and became the most decorated Olympian of all time, drowned Saturday while competing in the last scheduled race of his career, officials for the London games confirmed. According to source...
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    • Dying Lion Sure Doesn't Feel As Though He's Completing Some Great Cosmic Circle

      THE SERENGETI—According to a male lion currently dying on the Serengeti Plain, his agonizing demise certainly doesn't seem as though it's part of some transcendent cosmic circle of life, but rather as if he’s slowly and painfully bleeding to d...
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    • Son, 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Issue Consummate Relationship

      BURLINGTON, VT—After experiencing several months of strong sexual attraction, Joey Grafman, 13, and his father's copy of Sports Illustrated's 2012 swimsuit issue consummated their relationship late Saturday night in the eighth-grader's bedroo...
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    • Wendy's Wants Consumers To Know It's Fine With Gays, Disapproves Of Interracial Marriage

      DUBLIN, OH—Responding to Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy's recent controversial admission of the company's donations to antigay groups, a statement from competing fast food chain Wendy’s let consumers know Monday that it has long supported same-sex ...
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    • Pictures Of Smiling Group Of People Taken Where John Lennon Was Murdered

      NEW YORK—A smiling group of tourists, some giving the thumbs-up sign or making "bunny ears" behind one another's heads, posed to have their pictures taken Tuesday outside the Dakota apartments, on the very spot where John Lennon's blood sp...
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    • Construction Workers Realize They Put Erie Canal In Wrong Place

      The Onion looks back at the admission of Ant Colony 000082567KLN00067X into the Union, Nelson Mandela becoming fully rehabilitated through South Africa's stellar penal system, and  the day construction workers realized they built the Erie Canal in the wro...
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    • World Leader Wondering Why He Just Met With The Former Governor Of Massachusetts

      WARSAW, POLAND—World leader and president of Poland Bronisław Komorowski was reportedly puzzled Tuesday as to why he had just met with a man who was apparently the governor of Massachusetts six years ago.
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    • Nation's Lower Class At Least Grateful It Not Part Of Nation's Middle Class

      CHAPEL HILL, NC—A survey released Wednesday by researchers at the University of North Carolina found that despite the many challenges they face, the nation's lowest-income individuals are nonetheless thankful they don't have to endure the unique har...
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    • Badminton World Rocked By Worst Scandal Since Dad Tapped Aunt Carla's Ass With Racket

      LONDON—The entire badminton world remained in a state of shock Thursday following the disqualification of eight athletes from the 2012 Olympics for allegedly throwing their matches, an incident experts are calling the sport’s highest profile s...
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    • Fed: 'If Jobs Are Meant To Be With Us, They'll Come Back On Their Own'

      WASHINGTON—Following a two-day meeting to discuss the country's continually disappointing employment numbers, officials from the Federal Reserve announced Friday that if jobs are really meant to be with the American people, they’ll return of t...
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