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Friday, May 15, 2009 Sign Up for Newsletters New This Week • Two New Cloaking Devices Close In on True Invisibility • IN THE WOMB: "Extreme" Animal Embryos Revealed • Stone Age Superglue Found -- Hints at Unknown Smarts? • PHOTO: Smuggler Caught With 14 Birds in Pants Week in Photos See a kangaroo with an arrow through its head, glowing paper lanterns in Indonesia, and an exceptionally lucky clover breeder in this week's best news photos. See the Photos See Latest News » More News Photos » Top Stories of the Week CHINA EARTHQUAKE PHOTOS: One Year Later, Ruins Remain One year after a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck the mountainous Sichuan Province, killing 90,000 and leaving 5 million homeless, residents are starting to pick up the pieces.   PHOTO: Smuggler Caught With 14 Birds in Pants Given away by bird poop on his socks, a man was charged Tuesday in California with smuggling exotic Asian songbirds from Vietnam into the United States.   PHOTO: Hubble "Supercamera" Takes Final "Pretty Picture" The longest-running Hubble Space Telescope camera has snapped its parting shot: the remains of a giant red star. But a next-generation camera is sure to take additional "amazing" photos of the cosmos, NASA officials say.   See Latest News »   Latest Photo News                   GLOWING ANIMALS: Pictures of Beasts Shining for Science   SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Monster Galaxies and More     More Photos »   Latest Video News                   Deep-Sea Eruption, Odd Animals Seen   Extreme Lengths Keep Wild Cats Wild     More Videos »   Most Viewed News of the Week   1. PHOTO: Smuggler Caught With 14 Birds in Pants 2. Two New Cloaking Devices Close In on True Invisibility 3. Giant Shark Mystery Solved: Unexpected Hideout Found 4. Deep-Sea Eruption, Odd Animals Seen 5. "Lost World" of Dinosaurs Survived Mass Extinction?   More Most Viewed »       Photo of the Day See Photo If you received this email from a friend and would like to subscribe to this or other National Geographic emails, click here. Unsubscribe | Change Email Address | Update Email Preferences | Privacy Policy | Mission Statement Click the unsubscribe link above to be removed from our email program, or send your request to… National Geographic; Attn: E-newsletter Program; 1145 17th Street NW; Washington, DC 20036. Copyright © 2009 National Geographic Society. All Rights Reserved. To ensure that you receive your National Geographic emails, please add ngs@newsletters.nationalgeographic.com to your address book now.