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National parks face funding crunch
After more than a decade of scrimping and deferring maintenance and construction projects — and absorbing a 6 percent budget cut in the past two years — the signs of strain are beginning to surface at national parks across the country.

August 20, 2012 3 Photos
Dinosaur age, meet the space age
Eons before man dreamed of exploring the heavens, dinosaur tracker Ray Stanford is convinced, a low-slung armored beast roamed what is now a NASA campus in Greenbelt, Md., stamping a huge footprint that went unnoticed until he spied it this summer.

August 20, 2012 1 Photo
National parks face funding crunch
National parks are facing continued budget cuts as a time that many parks are in need of repairs and restoration.

August 20, 2012 3 Photos
Finding love on the run: The fast rise of mobile dating apps
Mobile dating. It's all the horrors of online dating transferred to your phone, where you get creepy texts from people who view your profile and use your location to stalk you. Right?

August 20, 2012 1 Photo
Obama strikes back at GOP economic policy
President Barack Obama called the latest addition to the GOP ticket, Rep. Paul Ryan, "a good man, a family man" during a speech in Iowa on Tuesday. But he had little good to say about the Wisconsin congressman's positions on the budget and economy, criticizing Republican economic policy as "trickle-down fairy dust."

August 14, 2012 1 Photo 1 Slideshow
Energy drinks remain under scrutiny
A small mention in an obscure regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reveals energy drink maker Monster Beverage is being investigated by a state attorney general.

August 14, 2012 1 Photo
How long can you live without sunlight?
Russian police have discovered 57 cult members living in an underground bunker in the Republic of Tatarstan. Many of the children ensconced in the bunker have never seen the sun, according to authorities. How long can you live without exposure to sunlight?

August 14, 2012 1 Photo
Slate: What it's like for a girl gamer
The gaming world can be cruel to women. Mute the trolls.

August 14, 2012 1 Photo
10 things that kill more people than sharks
You're more likely to be crushed by the vending machine while trying to shake free your Snickers bar than killed by a shark.

August 13, 2012 1 Photo
Record heat, drought point to longer-term climate issues
Under the most wide-reaching drought since 1956, and torched by the hottest July on record dating from 1895, the United States has been under the kind of weather stress that climatologists say will be more common if the long-standing trend toward higher U.S. temperatures continues. Most immediately affected are the nation's water sources and the people and crops that rely on them.

August 13, 2012 4 Photos
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