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Bruno Mars is set to join the Red Hot Chili Peppers at Sundays Super Bowl halftime show, but center stage wasnt always so youthful. Since Janet Jacksons infamous wardrobe malfunction, the show took a geriatric turn for a few years over the last decade before it slowly moved back to the younger set.

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A decade has passed since Janet Jackson sparked controversy when her nipple surfaced on national television during Superbowl XXXVIII. Jackson, then 37, performed with then-23-year-old Justin Timberlake, singing Timberlakes 2002 song, Rock Your Body.

The next year, rock superstar Paul McCartney brought viewers into a Beatles time warp of sorts at the 2005 Super Bowl halftime show, when he rocked out on songs first released in the 1960s. His performance marked a geriatric turn for the artists taking over the Super Bowl field between the games first and second halves.

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The Rolling Stones continued the Super Bowls classic rock fix in 2006, opening the show with a rendition of Start Me Up, which was first released in 1981. Lead singer Mick Jagger, then 62, ran around on stage with vigor unmatched by many his age.

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Investing.com - U.S. stock markets were mildly lower after the open on Monday, as investors looked ahead to key U.S. economic data later in the day to gauge the strength of the economy and for further indications on the future course of monetary policy.

During early U.S. trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.15%, the S&P 500 dipped 0.1%, while the Nasdaq Composite index shed 0.1%.

The U.S. Institute of Supply Management is to produce data on manufacturing activity for January shortly after the open.

U.S. markets were given a negative lead from Europe and Asia after data showed that China's official non-manufacturing PMI slipped to its lowest level since December 2008 in January, falling to 53.4 from 54.6 in December.

The deterioration in the services sector adds to declining manufacturing PMIs. Data released over the weekend showed that China's official manufacturing PMI fell to a six-month low of 50.5 in January from 51.0 in December.

Meanwhile, market players continued to monitor liquidity conditions in emerging markets, such as Turkey and South Africa.

Emerging markets economies have been hard hit in recent sessions by worries over the impact of cuts in Federal Reserve stimulus and concerns over a slowdown in China.

Across the Atlantic, European stock markets were lower. The EURO STOXX 50 fell 0.45%, France's CAC 40 dropped 0.25%, Germany's DAX slumped 0.3%, while Britain's FTSE 100 inched down 0.1%.

Asian stock markets fell sharply on Monday, with Japan's Nikkei 225 Index ending down 2%. Markets in Shanghai and Hong Kong remained closed for the Lunar New Year holiday.

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Riyadh: An obese Saudi Arabian man, weighing a staggering 610 kgs, has shed 320 kgs after a concerned Saudi king ordered him hospitalised months ago.

King Abdullah had ordered Khalid Mohsen Al-Shaeri to undergo treatment in Riyadh in August.

Suffering from extreme obesity, Shaeri from Jazan was successful in cutting down his weight from 610 kg to 290 kg following specialised treatment at the King Fahd Medical City (KFMC) in Riyadh.

Losing 320 kgs in four months is a record, Arab News quoted medical experts as saying.

Shaeri's treatment has now reached an advanced stage, Dr Ayed Al-Qahtani, consultant, laparoscopic surgery and obesity at KFMC was quoted as saying.

His heart and lungs are functioning properly and the medical team treating him has reported considerable improvement in his muscle power and ability to move his legs.

"We have also manufactured a custom-made huge wheelchair for him. This again is a record in that it is the largest medical chair in the world," Mr Qahtani was quoted as saying.

Twenty-one consultants and 15 nurses besides his mother have been taking care of Shaeri.

In the first three months of treatment, he lost 150 kg. A surgical operation of the abdomen helped him lose a further 170 kg.

"We have been providing him with special food imported from the US," Al-Qahtani said.

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By simulating the environment when corn was first exploited by people and then domesticated, Smithsonian scientists discovered that corn's ancestor, a wild grass called teosinte, may have looked very different then than it does today. The fact that it looks more like corn under these conditions may help to explain how teosinte came to be selected by early farmers who turned it into one of the most important staple crops in the world.

The vegetative and flowering structures of modern teosinte are very different from those of corn. These and other differences led to a century-long dispute as to whether teosinte could really be the ancestor of corn.

"We grew teosinte in the conditions that it encountered 10,000 years ago during the early Holocene period: temperatures 2-3 degrees Celsius cooler than today's with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels at around 260 parts per million," said Dolores Piperno, senior scientist and curator of archaeobotany and South American archaeology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, who led the project. "Intriguingly, the teosinte plants grown under past conditions exhibit characteristics more like corn: a single main stem topped by a single tassel, a few, very short branches tipped by female ears and synchronous seed maturation.

After the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide rose to today's 405 parts per million, the level in the control chamber where teosinte plants look like plants in the wild today -- tall, with many long branches tipped by tassels and seed maturation taking place over a period of a few months. Co-author Klaus Winter usually studies the effects of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels on tropical plants as a senior staff scientist at STRI. Piperno and Winter devised a scheme to essentially travel back in time by comparing plants grown in modern conditions with plants grown in the early Holocene chamber.

"Now it appears to be an open question when in the Holocene teosinte became the plant very distinctive from maize in vegetative architecture and inflorescence sexuality that we see today and use as the baseline for research on maize domestication," said Piperno. "When humans first began to cultivate teosinte about 10,000 years ago, it was probably more maize-like -- naturally exhibiting some characteristics previously thought to result from human selection and domestication. The environment may have played a significant, if serendipitous, role in the transition through inducing phenotypic plasticity that gave early farmers a head start."

Phenotypic plasticity is an organism's ability to change in response to the environment, causing genetically identical organisms to look very different when they live in different conditions. As they formulate a "new modern evolutionary synthesis," in part with concepts that Darwin could not have known of, evolutionary biologists continue to debate the importance of the environment and plasticity on evolutionary change and the origins of the diverse forms of life on Earth today. However, new evidence shows that these environmental-phenotypic interactions are in a growing number of organisms. This is one of the first studies to examine the influence of these processes on plant domestication.

"Extending these concepts to domestication research allows anthropologists to become more fully engaged in modern evolutionary theory and practice," Piperno said.

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With the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics just four days away, IOC President Thomas Bach has defended Russia's ability to prodive a safe Games.

A PEST control company which has been killing stray dogs in Sochi for years says it has a contract to exterminate more of the animals throughout the Olympics.

Alexei Sorokin, director general of pest control firm Basya Services, said his company is involved in what he described as the "catching and disposing" of dogs. Mr Sorokin refused to specify whether they shoot or poison dogs or say where they take the carcasses.

Thousands of stray dogs are roaming the streets of Sochi, Mr Sorokin said, and some of them are "biting children".

Mr Sorokin said he attended a rehearsal of the Olympic opening ceremony last week and saw a stray dog walking in on the performers.

"A dog ran into the Fisht Stadium, we took it away," he said. "God forbid something like this happens at the actual opening ceremony. This will be a disgrace for the whole country."

A stray dog walks through Olympic Park ahead of the Winter Olympics.

Stray dogs are not uncommon in Sochi and the surrounding area, and many tend to gather near construction sites where they are likely to get food and shelter from workers. They have even been able to get inside the Olympic Park.

Mr Sorokin's company operates in the Krasnodar region, which encompasses Sochi and the neighbouring area. Mr Sorokin refused to say how many dogs they kill a year, calling it "a commercial secret".

Sergei Krivonosov, a lawmaker from the Krasnodar region, last year supported the dog culling.

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A pest control company which has been killing stray dogs in Sochi for years told The Associated Press on Monday that it has a contract to exterminate more of the animals throughout the Olympics.

Alexei Sorokin, director general of pest control firm Basya Services, said his company is involved in what he described as the "catching and disposing" of dogs. Sorokin refused to specify whether they shoot or poison dogs or say where they take the carcasses.

Thousands of stray dogs are roaming the streets of Sochi, Sorokin said, and some of them are "biting children."

Sorokin said he attended a rehearsal of the Olympic opening ceremony last week and saw a stray dog walking in on the performers.

"A dog ran into the Fisht Stadium, we took it away," he said. "God forbid something like this happens at the actual opening ceremony. This will be a disgrace for the whole country."

Stray dogs are not uncommon in Sochi and the surrounding area, and many tend to gather near construction sites where they are likely to get food and shelter from workers. They have even been able to get inside the Olympic Park.

Sorokin's company operates in the Krasnodar region, which encompasses Sochi and the neighbouring area. Sorokin refused to say how many dogs they kill a year, calling it "a commercial secret."

Sergei Krivonosov, a lawmaker from the Krasnodar region, last year supported the dog culling.

Krivonosov said taking the dogs off the street was Russia's "responsibility to the international community and that their elimination is the quickest way to solve this problem." He conceded, however, that this is "not the most humane way" of dealing with the problem and said that authorities should encourage dog shelters.

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SOCHI, Russia (CBSNewYork/AP) A pest control company which has been killing stray dogs in Sochi for years told The Associated Press on Monday that it has a contract to exterminate more of the animals throughout the Olympics.

Alexei Sorokin, director general of pest control firm Basya Services, said his company is involved in what he described as the catching and disposing of dogs. Sorokin refused to specify whether they shoot or poison dogs or say where they take the carcasses.

Thousands of stray dogs are roaming the streets of Sochi, Sorokin said, and some of them are biting children.

Sorokin said he attended a rehearsal of the Olympic opening ceremony last week and saw a stray dog walking in on the performers.

A dog ran into the Fisht Stadium, we took it away, he said. God forbid something like this happens at the actual opening ceremony. This will be a disgrace for the whole country.

Stray dogs are not uncommon in Sochi and the surrounding area, and many tend to gather near construction sites where they are likely to get food and shelter from workers. They have even been able to get inside the Olympic Park.

Sorokins company operates in the Krasnodar region, which encompasses Sochi and the neighboring area. Sorokin refused to say how many dogs they kill a year, calling it a commercial secret.

Sergei Krivonosov, a lawmaker from the Krasnodar region, last year supported the dog culling.

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SOCHI, Russia (AP) -- A pest control company which has been killing stray dogs in Sochi for years told The Associated Press on Monday that it has a contract to exterminate more of the animals throughout the Olympics.

Alexei Sorokin, director general of pest control firm Basya Services, said his company is involved in what he described as the "catching and disposing" of dogs. Sorokin refused to specify whether they shoot or poison dogs or say where they take the carcasses.

Thousands of stray dogs are roaming the streets of Sochi, Sorokin said, and some of them are "biting children."

Sorokin said he attended a rehearsal of the Olympic opening ceremony last week and saw a stray dog walking in on the performers.

"A dog ran into the Fisht Stadium, we took it away," he said. "God forbid something like this happens at the actual opening ceremony. This will be a disgrace for the whole country."

Stray dogs are not uncommon in Sochi and the surrounding area, and many tend to gather near construction sites where they are likely to get food and shelter from workers. They have even been able to get inside the Olympic Park.

Sorokin's company operates in the Krasnodar region, which encompasses Sochi and the neighboring area. Sorokin refused to say how many dogs they kill a year, calling it "a commercial secret."

Sergei Krivonosov, a lawmaker from the Krasnodar region, last year supported the dog culling.

Krivonosov said taking the dogs off the street was Russia's "responsibility to the international community and that their elimination is the quickest way to solve this problem." He conceded, however, that this is "not the most humane way" of dealing with the problem and said that authorities should encourage dog shelters.

Sochi city hall last year announced a contract "to catch and dispose" of stray dogs in Sochi but animal activists vehemently protested the move. Authorities pledged to give up the practice and build animal shelters for stray dogs instead.

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