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Stage winner and overall leader Christopher Froome of Britain crosses the finish line of the fifteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 242.5 kilometers (150.7 miles) with start in in Givors and finish on the summit of Mont Ventoux pass, France, Sunday July 14, 2013. The riders will climb to an altitude of 1912 meters (6,273 Feet) as they tackle Mont Ventoux pass at the end of the longest stage of the 100th Tour de France edition. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

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Visitors and employees at the U.S. Botanic Garden on Capitol Hill got a good view — and a nose-curdling sniff — in 2003 when Amorphophallus Titanum opened to great fanfare. The rare flower smells like a rotting body and a new "corpse flower" is expected to have more curious onlookers this week when it will enthrall and gross out a new audience. (The Washington Times)

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Stage winner Christopher Froome of Britain, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, climbs in the last 100 meters of the Mont Ventoux pass during the fifteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 242.5 kilometers (150.7 miles) with start in in Givors and finish on the summit of Mont Ventoux pass, France, Sunday July 14, 2013. The riders climbed to an altitude of 1912 meters (6,273 Feet) tackling Mont Ventoux pass at the end of the longest stage of the 100th Tour de France edition. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)

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Sen. Mark Begich, a Democrat and former Anchorage mayor, is dismissing Sarah Palin as a viable candidate. (Mark Begich)

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Mimi Fery poses for a photograph Tuesday, July 9, 2013, in New York. Her daughter, Sidonie Fery, was about 10 years old when she and a playmate placed a note inside a ginger ale bottle and threw it in the Great South Bay off Long Island. Sidonie was tragically killed in a fall at a Swiss boarding school in 2010. But two years later, as workers were cleaning up a Patchogue, Long Island, beach after Superstorm Sandy, they discovered the note Sidonie had sent. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

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**FILE** An activist holds a sign that reads in Spanish "Let's stop obesity" during a protest in favor of vegetarian food in front of the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City on April 14, 2010. (Associated Press)

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Batman and Robin make a campy, nostalgic return in DC Comics' iPad friendly comic book series Batman '66.

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**FILE** Miguel Angel Concheso waves a Cuban flag after he jumped from the MacArthur Causeway leading to Miami Beach, Fla., on June 29, 1999 near the Miami Beach U.S. Coast Guard Station. Concheso was one of a group protesting the treatment of six Cuban refugees caught in Surfside, Fla., after two made it to shore and four others were caught in the water. Under U.S. policy, Cubans who reach American shores are allowed to stay and eventually get work permits, but those found at sea, even a few yards offshore, are usually returned to Cuba. (Associated Press)

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Overall leader Christopher Froome of Britain prepares to leave for a training ride with his teammates on the rest day of the Tour de France cycling race in La Baule, western France, Monday July 8 2013. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)