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SI.com: Norman Chad: Jones' monument to himself a heap of corporate excess and football glory

Bugsy Siegel, in the 1991 film "Bugsy," walked into the desert and envisioned a glittering gambling palace.

62 still missing after blast at Russian plant

As many as 62 workers are still missing Tuesday, a day after an explosion at Russia's largest hydroelectric plant killed 12 people, a government official said.

10 dead, 68 missing in explosion at Russian plant

Water pipes burst during repair work Monday at Russia's largest hydroelectric plant, causing an explosion that killed at least 10 workers and left 68 missing, Russian Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu told reporters.

Putin bares torso in Siberian vacation shots

He has been caught on camera firing a tranquilizer dart into a Siberian tiger and has co-piloted a fighter jet. Now Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has added to his action-man credentials with a series of photographs showing a recent adventure vacation to Siberia.

Climate change threatens Lake Baikal's unique ecosystem

Siberia's Lake Baikal, the world's largest and most biologically diverse lake, faces the prospect of severe ecological disruption as a result of climate change, according to team of U.S. and Russian scientists.

9-foot dinosaur skeleton is no-sale at auction

Bidding failed to meet expectations Saturday on a uniquely complete skeleton of a Jurassic-era dryosaurus -- a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur -- so it was no-sale for the centerpiece at an auction of rare skeletons, fossils and other prehistoric memorabilia.

Russian, U.S. satellites collide in space

Two satellites, one Russian and one American, have collided some 800 kilometers (500 miles) above Siberia, the Russian and U.S. space agencies, said Thursday.

Time.com: Volunteering to Kill Georgians

On Scene: At a Russian recruitment center in North Ossetia, soldiers of all ages are eager to join the cause

Tunguska blast still a mystery 100 years on

It produced a blast hundreds of times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb, was seen hundreds of miles away and narrowly missed obliterating an entire city -- but 100 years to the week after the mysterious explosion in Siberia, no one is any closer to understanding what caused it.

Disconnecting is key to exploring

There is such a thing as being out of time: of looking at a map in your bedroom and realizing the most intriguing bits of the world have already been explored, that many indigenous groups had already been ruined by modern life, that vast tracts of rainforests or deserts or seas had also been spoiled by progress, that climbing Everest has become just another sport.

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