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McBeth with her mother in Ronsberg, Germany. Ronsberg, where Mcbeth's mother was raised, is a small town in the Bavarian Alps. September 2004

Susan McBeth grew up, the daughter of an Air Force father and a German mother. For her, living on a base, there was nothing like her mother’s cooking.

Horses run on the muddy backstretch in an undercard race before the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. NOAA predicted a 90 percent chance of rain Saturday afternoon.

Kentucky Derby: Rain-Soaked Track Awaits A New Champion

It's Derby Day in Kentucky, where days and weeks of anticipation will culminate in a race that lasts just over two minutes. When the starting gates open at 6:24 p.m. EDT, the 139th Kentucky Derby will have 19 horses in the field.

Competitors in a men's category race in the 2013 National Cyclo-cross Championships in Bradford, England, this month. The sport requires riders to traverse mud and sand on off-road courses peppered with obstacles.

Cyclo-Cross Championship Takes U.S. By Storm, Mud And Sand

While many Americans will be tuning into the Super Bowl on Sunday, there's another big sports competition this weekend: the Cyclo-Cross World Championships. This weekend's event, in Louisville, Ky., marks the first time in its 60-year history that the world championships will be held outside of Europe.

Capuchin monkeys at the zoo in Cali, Colombia.

The Girl Who Was Raised By Monkeys?

It's a captivating story: A young girl is abandoned deep in the forest and survives for years with only the help of monkeys. But can it be believed? Anthropologist Barbara J. King has her doubts.

Amputee Soldier Working As U.S. Open Ball Boy (Video)

The job Army Spc. Ryan McIntosh is doing this week requires a uniform of a different sort. McIntoch, who lost his leg two years ago in an Afghan land mine explosion, is working as a ball boy at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York City.

Exclusive First Read: Colson Whitehead's 'The Noble Hustle'

Colson Whitehead's account of his anhedonic adventures at the World Series of Poker is tough and tasty — like a good piece of beef jerky.

In Columbus, Ohio, signs of the sequester were hard to find.

Searching For The Sequester In The Middle Of Ohio

It's been a little more than a month since the start of the sequester -- the automatic, across-the-board spending cuts that kicked in because Congress couldn't agree on something better.

Billy Crystal has hosted the Academy Awards more times than anyone except Bob Hope. "I love doing it because I love the danger of it," Crystal says. "You have to come through and think on your feet."

Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)

Crystal isn't happy about turning 65, but at least he's finding a way to laugh about it. The actor and comedian's new memoir — Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? — is on the best-seller list and he'll be back on Broadway in November.

According to legend, the Explorers Club — a society of scientific adventurers — served its members a prehistoric dish at its annual dinner in 1951. By some accounts, the mystery meat was woolly mammoth; by others, extinct giant sloth. Now DNA analysis has provided a definitive answer — and unraveled a decades-long deception.

Two Grad Students Use Science To Bust The Dinner Hoax Of The Century

In 1951, members of the scientific Explorers Club thought they had dined on prehistoric meat dug out of the Alaskan tundra. The meal became legend. Now two Yale students have unraveled the deception.

Kentucky Derby winner Orb gets a blanket put on him by exercise rider Jennifer Patterson and trainer Shug McGaughey after a workout earlier this week at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. Orb contends Saturday for the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown.

For Trainer Of Derby Champion, 'My Dream Came True'

Shug McGaughey is the trainer of Kentucky Derby winner Orb, who runs Saturday in the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown. Despite his long record of success, no one seems as surprised as the 62-year-old McGaughey to be pursuing one of the sport's top honors.

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