With all the hoopla surrounding the president's bear hug by a pizzeria owner on Sunday, Joe Biden's intimate moment with a biker chick -- and her security detail -- was sadly overlooked.

Our bad.

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Congresswoman Gabby Giffords almost died when Jared Loughner opened fire on her at a rally in January 2011.

But on Thursday, it was her remarkable recovery that took center stage -- watch as she brings down the house at the DNC with the Pledge of Allegiance.

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The Curiosity Rover made it to Mars late Sunday night, and so far all we've got is this single high-res photo.

But it was more than enough to send NASA engineers into ecstasy, since the Curiosity's landing sequence -- coined The Seven Minutes of Terror -- requires six vehicle configurations, 76 pyrotechnic devices, the largest supersonic parachute ever built, and more than 500,000 lines of code.

According to NASA administrator Charles Bolden, "new technologies never invented or attempted before were created for this journey," and that the odds for success were actually just 40 percent.

Curiosity, the most sophisticated Rover ever built is now on the surface of the red planet, where it will seek to answer age-old questions about whether or not life ever existed there on Mars or if the planet can sustain life in the future.

More photos to come, we can be sure of that.

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Michael Phelps' mom initially thought he took first in the 200-meter butterfly, and her reaction to the silver medal is golden.

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Thursday night's edition of Jimmy Kimmel's "This Week In Unnecessary Censorship" is, as usual, better than last.

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Meet Krandel Lee Newton, "The Original Butt Sketch Artist."

I'm just like every other guy, except for instead of taking a peek, I kind of stare a little bit longer.

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Not sure what's most impressive here: Mama Bear lifting the garage door, the cub's acrobatics, or the cub angling the ladder in such a way as to not hit the station wagon.

[jezebel]