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February 8, 2010 Pass Wasn’t the First Thing Porter Cut Off By JOE LAPOINTE MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Without a helmet, Tracy Porter’s artwork could be seen by all. On the left side of his almost-shaved head his remaining hair said “SB 44” in honor of Super Bowl XLIV. On the right side of his head was the outline of the Lombardi Trophy, which Porter’s New Orleans Saints won Sunday night with a 31-17 victory over the Indianapolis Colts. And on the back of his skull, his remaining hair was shaped into the outline of the Superdome, the home stadium of the Saints and the refuge for suffering residents ousted from their homes in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Porter said he got the artwork done on his head hours before the game, which was decided when he returned an interception 74 yards for a touchdown late in the fourth quarter. He said that he paid his barber $40 and an undisclosed tip at the team hotel in the afternoon and that it took so long to do it, Porte...

Look who stopped by Marilyn Monroe is shown in New York in December 1961 in a photo released on Friday, Feb. 5. Photographer Len Steckler shot the black-and-white images of the actress when she unexpectedly arrived at his apartment to visit his friend, Pulitzer-prize winning poet Carl Sandburg. Steckler is offering them for a sale as a limited edition series called "Marilyn Monroe: The Visit." from msnbc.com

Ukraine Tymoshenko's team cries foul before polls close Reuters Sunday, February 7, 2010; 12:20 PM KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian presidential contender Yulia Tymoshenko's campaign team cried foul as voting was under way in Sunday's election, saying it would contest results in the region which is the base of her rival Viktor Yanukovich. Prime Minister Tymoshenko, who led the 2004 street protests which propelled her to prominence and humiliated Yanukovich by denying him victory in a rigged poll, has vowed to call people onto the streets again if the current poll is falsified. "(Actions) by Yanukovich supporters spread from blocking the work of our election observers in the Donetsk region to open banditry and terrorism in some western Ukrainian regions," Deputy Prime Minister and Tymoshenko campaign chief Oleksander Turchynov told a news briefing. "This criminal approach to organizing an election cannot help holding it in an honest and transpare...

February 6, 2010 Saturday ProfileUkraine’s Premier Stumps for Her Turn at the Top  By CLIFFORD J. LEVY IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Ukraine SHE took the stage at a theater for one of her last speeches before Sunday’s presidential election, and the setting seemed apt: here was a politician as riveting and ambitious and unpredictable as any heroine in an epic play. Just her name — Yulia! — has become shorthand for her stardom. But Ukraine may no longer be as eager to embrace Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko as it was during the 2004 Orange Revolution, when she led a pro-Western, anti-Kremlin movement. (And along the way, hit upon using a blond peasant braid as a nationalist statement.) No matter that Ms. Tymoshenko once represented the hope that the countries of the former Soviet Union could build a stable, democratic future. She is trailing in the polls and trying to rouse supporters who are dispirited by a limp economy and Ukraine’s bickering government. Even in this we...

February 5, 2010 Evidence Builds on Color of Dinosaurs By CARL ZIMMER Until last week, paleontologists could offer no clear-cut evidence for the color of dinosaurs. Then researchers provided evidence that a dinosaur called Sinosauropteryx had a white-and-ginger striped tail. And now a team of paleontologists has published a full-body portrait of another dinosaur, in striking plumage that would have delighted that great painter of birds John James Audubon. “This is actual science, not ‘Avatar,’ ” said Richard O. Prum, an evolutionary biologist at Yale and co-author of the new study, published in Science. Dr. Prum and his colleagues took advantage of the fact that feathers contain pigment-loaded sacs called melanosomes. In 2009, they demonstrated that melanosomes survived for millions of years in fossil bird feathers. The shape and arrangement of melanosomes help produce the color of feathers, so the scientists were able to get clues about the color of fossil feathers from the...

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