2005-08-18 - 12:47 p.m.

August 16, 2005—Speeding from the scene of the crime, a Chinese boy tows a floating plastic bag of stolen natural gas last week. Flouting a government ban, farmers around the central Chinese town of Pucheng frequently filch gas from the local oil field.

August 8, 2005—A U.S. Navy photographer with lightning-fast reflexes captured this image of a fighter plane blasting through a "sonic boom cloud" as the jet broke the sound barrier. Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Chandler shot the picture as the F/A-18F Super Hornet blew past the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk in the Philippine Sea on July 27.

As hybrids of tigers and lions, ligers—such as Patrick, shown here at a California's Shambala Preserve—bear traits of both. Faint stripes are passed down from Mom, and Dad contributes a leonine mane.

Beyond appearance, the big cats betray their mixed ancestry with a split personality, according to cat conservationist Tippi Hedren. "They like to be in the water [a tiger trait] and are very social [a lion trait]," she said.

Four hundred feet (122 meters) of raging whitewater sound hard to miss—let alone to find, lose, and then rediscover. But that's what has happened in a California park.

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