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• Gabby Douglas is back for her grand finale.
• The American two-time gold medalist has a chance for one more title before she leaves the London Games, competing Tuesday on the balance beam.
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• LONDON (AP) -- Get ready for more of The Bolt Show.
• Usain Bolt dropped by Olympic Stadium for a brief visit Monday night and did things his way, as usual, jumping to the top step of the medal podium to collect his second consecutive gold for the 100 meters.
• When the Jamaican sensation returns to the track on Tuesday, it'll be for the first round of the 200 meters, an event he's planning to win, too, as part of his quest to become what he calls a "living legend."
• As it is, Bolt and Carl Lewis are the only men to take home back-to-back golds in the 100.
• No man ever has won two Olympic 200s.
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• PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- NASA's Curiosity rover has transmitted a low-

resolution video showing the last 2 1/2 minutes of its white-knuckle dive through the Martian atmosphere, giving earthlings a sneak peek of a spacecraft landing on another world.
• As thumbnails of the video flashed on a big screen on Monday, scientists and engineers at the NASA Jet Propulsion let out "oohs" and "aahs." The recording began with the protective heat shield falling away and ended with dust being kicked up as the rover was lowered by cables inside an ancient crater.
• It was a sneak preview, since it'll take some time before full-resolution frames are beamed back depending on other priorities.
• The full video "will just be exquisite," said Michael Malin, the chief scientist of the instrument.
• NASA celebrated the precision landing of a rover on Mars and marveled over the mission's flurry of photographs -- grainy, black-and-white images of Martian gravel, a mountain at sunset and, most exciting of all, the spacecraft's white-knuckle plunge

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