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Florida's Biggest Python So Far Measured 17 Feet, 7 Inches; Had 87 Eggs

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Florida Museum of Natural History researchers at work on the record-long Burmese python.

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She was so long it's hard to fit her in one photo.

By Mark Memmott

Originally published on Thu August 16, 2012 12:07 pm

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5:13 pm

Mon August 13, 2012

For Playlist Junkies, An App To Send You Down The Rabbit Hole

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The Songza app lets music lovers build playlists for almost any mood or situation, from "Unwinding After a Long Day" to "Cooking" or "Eating Dinner."

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Originally published on Mon August 13, 2012 5:18 pm

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Chicago DJ Mary Nisi is no stranger to the art of the playlist. As president of the wedding DJ company Toast & Jam, she builds them regularly for receptions of all kinds.

5:09 pm

Mon August 13, 2012

In Colorado Wildfires' Wake, Survivors Live In Limbo

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C.J. Moore stands where her front door used to be, before the Waldo Canyon Fire swept through the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs, Colo. The fire destroyed more than 350 homes there.

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Like many of her neighbors, Moore lost almost all of her belongings in the fire.

By Kirk Siegler

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When the Waldo Canyon Fire roared over the hill behind the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs, Colo., in June, nearly 350 homes were destroyed. The blaze reduced this affluent neighborhood at the foot of the mountains to rubble.

C.J. Moore's home on Mirror Lake Court was among the casualties. The inferno was so hot, her stone driveway exploded. Only a few blackened trees sway eerily in the wind where her home used to stand.

4:36 pm

Mon August 13, 2012

Favored In GOP Senate Primary, Linda McMahon Faces Critics Left And Right

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Connecticut GOP Senate candidates Rep. Christopher Shays and Linda McMahon shake hands at a June 14 debate in Storrs. State Republicans vote Tuesday on which candidate will move on to the general election.

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Originally published on Mon August 13, 2012 5:12 pm

Two years ago, Republican Linda McMahon ran for an open U.S. Senate seat in Connecticut, spent $50 million of her own money in the process, and lost.

In an otherwise Republican year, the former top executive at World Wrestling Entertainment was easily beaten by Democrat Richard Blumenthal.

Now, McMahon is trying again — running for the seat of outgoing Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent.

3:38 pm

Mon August 13, 2012

'Cosmo' Editor Helen Gurley Brown Dies At 90

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When Helen Gurley Brown took the reins at Cosmo in 1965, it was a foundering monthly known for fiction. She remained at the helm for more than 30 years. Here, Brown poses at her office in New York in September 1985.

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Brown holds the last copy of Cosmo she edited, in January 1997.

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Originally published on Tue August 14, 2012 4:22 pm

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Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, died Monday in New York at age 90.

If Cosmo was her biggest legacy, it was her 1962 best-seller, Sex and the Single Girl, that launched her to fame. She was 40, with a high-paying job in advertising and a recent marriage to Hollywood producer David Brown.

But she was writing for the single girls, not her privileged peers, says Jennifer Scanlon, author of a Brown biography called Bad Girls Go Everywhere.

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