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'Dallas star Audrey Landers refused to pose nude in Playboy

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Explore More “Dallas” star Audrey Landers crafted a name for herself in Hollywood as the feisty Afton Cooper on the popular ’80s soap opera. And the now-65-year-old proved she had star quality when she posed with her sister, Judy Landers, on the cover of the January 1983 edition of Playboy magazine. Landers looked back on her experience posing for late publisher Hugh Hefner’s pictorial and why she opted not to go nude for the memorable cover. Read More...

A U.S. restaurant is No. 3 on the 2016 Worlds 50 Best Restaurants list

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The famed New York restaurant Eleven Madison Park was named the third-best restaurant in the world last night, an honor that hasn’t been awarded to an American restaurant in — fittingly — 11 years. “We were definitely hopeful to move up a little bit,” said chef and co-owner Daniel Humm. “It’s unbelievable, it’s an incredible honor.” Eleven Madison Park is known for its refined, seven-to-nine course tasting menus, which are $295 excluding beverages. The restaurant was founded in 1998 by restaurateur Danny Meyer as a French brasserie, but in the years since, it has become world-renowned for elegant fine dining, earning three Michelin stars. Read More...

For Burrowing Owls, the Future Depends on Squirrels, Badgers and Prairie Dogs | Blog | Nature

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Burrowing owl peers out from its burrow. California, USA. © Tom Vezo/ Nature Picture Library Nature is filled with examples of one species benefiting from the efforts of another. Take the Western burrowing owl and the tunneling species that unwittingly build their nests. The charismatic, pint-sized owls have stilt-like legs that help them spot predators but aren’t ideal for digging. So they rely on animals custom-built for the task, including prairie dogs, squirrels and badgers, to do it for them. Read More...

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