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DAYLIGHT AGAIN Blight over famed Tokyo bridge to go undergroundJuly 22, 2017 An eyesore over arguably Tokyo's most famous bridge is to be finally removed, although not in time for the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.
MIND-BOGGLING Scientists find bacteria with no clear life-support mechanismJuly 22, 2017 Japanese researchers reported the existence of a microorganism that defies conventional understanding of what constitutes life, a discovery that is being hailed as mind-boggling.

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