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Barbie cocktails are prepared for guests at the opening ceremony of Barbie Shanghai flagship store, March 6, 2009, in Shanghai, China. The color pink has long been associated with the Barbie brand — she even has her own Pantone color. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

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From Barbie to millennial pink, the cultural phenomenon behind the color that sells
By KARENA PHAN - Associated Press
Fri,07/21/23-7:55AM , 89 Reads
“Think pink! think pink! when you shop for summer clothes. Think pink! think pink! if you want that quelque chose.”
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In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Zach Taylor, the 2021 "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike Contest winner, shoves birthday cake into the face of 2022 winner Jon Auvil, Thursday, July 20, 2023, on the eve of Ernest Hemingway's 124th birthday anniversary, at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West, Fla. The birthday commemoration preceded the first round of the 2023 Hemingway Look-Alike Contest, a highlight of the island's annual Hemingway Days festival. The famed American author lived and wrote in Key West for most of the 1930s. (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP)

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Annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest begins in Florida Keys
By The Associated Press
Thu,07/20/23-7:59PM , 41 Reads
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Almost 140 bearded men who resemble Ernest Hemingway converged on Key West, the late author’s home during the 1930s, to compete in the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest that began Thursday evening.
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Wildlife officials have been trying to capture a wayward sea otter that has been wresting surfboards away from surfers and aggressively approaching kayakers off the coast of Santa Cruz, California. (July 20)

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The sea otter harassing surfers off the California coast eludes capture as her fan club grows
By HAVEN DALEY and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press
Thu,07/20/23-2:43PM , 24 Reads
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A sea otter launched into the national spotlight after images of her aggressively wresting surfboards away from surfers off the coast of Santa Cruz, California circulated on social media is building a fan club as she continues to evade capture.
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This image provided by the Canadian Museum of Nature shows entangled dinosaur and mammal skeletons. The scale bar equals 10 cm. The unusual fossil from China suggests some early mammals may have hunted down dinosaur meat for dinner. The fossil shows a badger-like creature chomping down on a beaky dinosaur three times its size. The research published on Tuesday, July 18, 2023, adds to growing evidence that even when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, some mammals were biting back. (Gang Han/Canadian Museum of Nature via AP)

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Mammals may have hunted down dinosaurs for dinner, rare fossil suggests
By MADDIE BURAKOFF - AP Science Writer
Tue,07/18/23-10:11AM , 62 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — An unusual find in China suggests some early mammals may have hunted dinosaur for dinner.
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