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APTOPIX Britain Tough Guy
A competitor emerges from a water obstacle at the annual Tough Guy event, Perton, England, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. Tough Guy claims to be the world's most demanding one-day survival ordeal. First staged in 1986, it has been widely described as "the toughest race in the world", with up to one-third of the starters failing to finish in a typical year.(AP Photo/Jon Super)
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Boise elementary students visited by NFL player (Photo Gallery)
BOISE, Idaho (KBOI) - Students from White Pine Elementary School in Boise had a special visitor Wednesday morning.
Seattle Seahawk fullback Michael Robinson came to Boise to meet with the students after they won a statewide competition sponsored by the NFL and the Idaho Dairy Council.
The Fuel Up to Play 60 program encourages young people to eat healthy and be physically active for 60 minutes each day.
White Pine students were able to ask Robinson questions, and he talked to them about the importance of healthy eating and regular exercise.
Robinson also helped judge a "touchdown dance-off".
The students at White Pine students won the statewide competition by eating right, getting active, and making healthy changes.
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RFK Jr.'s estranged wife, Mary, found dead in NY (Photo Gallery)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s estranged wife, Mary Kennedy, who had fought drug and alcohol problems, was found dead in her home Wednesday.
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GI killed in Cambodia awarded Medal of Honor (Photo Gallery)
President Barack Obama has awarded an Army soldier the Medal of Honor 42 years after the rifleman was killed during a Vietnam-era clash in Cambodia.
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Ruling: Boy can stay on girls field hockey team (Photo Gallery)
An athletics committee on Long Island has ruled that a 13-year-old boy can keep playing field hockey on the girls' team at Southampton High School.
National & World
Photos: A look inside North Korea's mass spectacles (Photo Gallery)
For the people of Pyongyang, they are simply a part of life. Residency is tightly restricted for the capital city, where life is far easier than it is for most North Koreans, who live with staggering rates of poverty and malnutrition.
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WCA butterfly stolen... again. (Photo Gallery)
The butterfly sculpture on a statue outside the Women and Children's Alliance in Boise has been stolen for the second time in two months.
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Dept. of Labor building still empty during asbestos cleanup (Photo Gallery)
On Wednesday, Bob Fick, spokesman for the department, said employees have still not been given the OK to return to work. Last Friday, construction crews found evidence of asbestos.
Entertainment
Photos: On the red carpet at Cannes (Photo Gallery)
Diane Kruger must have arrived in France with a lot of luggage. On Wednesday, Day 1 of the 12-day Cannes Film Festival, Kruger, a member of the prestigious jury, turned up in two different outfits.
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Jury convicts Steve Powell of voyeurism charges (Photo Gallery)
A jury has convicted Steve Powell of voyeurism charges that stemmed from an investigation into the 2009 disappearance of his daughter-in-law Susan Powell, a mother of two from Utah who has never been found.
