Nokulunga Buthelezi is standing in a Big Top in London's Docklands with her foot on top of her head. She removes the foot easily and, just as easily, replaces it with her other one.
Then Nokulunga - known as Lunga, or, more flamboyantly, Snake-Girl - puts the other one back. Now both feet are on her head.
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In this photo released by the official Xinhua news agency, members of China's armed police demonstrate a rapid deployment during an anti-terrorist drill held in Jinan, east China, on Wednesday July 2, 2008, roughly one month ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games.
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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - Walking through a darkened corridor of Lawrence Hall on the University of Oregon campus, something against the wall catches the eyes of Michael Salter. It's a wheel from a chair or desk, just another of society's discarded items, but it's something that might just end up in his art someday.
He scoops it up in midstride.
"I thought it was kind of interesting," Salter says later at his studio. "Things have a way of kind of hanging out in here. And then sometimes they move on, sometimes they just sit around."
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BOGOTA, Colombia (CNN) -- Government agents posing as rebels tricked a gang of armed desperados into handing over 15 hostages during a rendezvous deep in Colombia's unforgiving jungle.
Gen. Mario Montoya leads freed hostages across the tarmac Wednesday at the Bogota, Colombia, airport.
The Colombian government's bloodless rescue of the hostages Wednesday was the product of a perfectly executed ruse that depended on old-school spy games rather than high-tech gadgetry.
Agents spent months worming their way into the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, an insurgent force that has waged war on the Colombian state for 40 years, Gen. Freddy Padilla de Leon told CNN.
The agents gained the rebels' trust and rose to the top of FARC's leadership council as well as a team assigned to guard the hostages.
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