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  • Husband and wife Annie and Ed Diment put the final bricks in place on their 400,000-piece "Ice Age" display at a Lego exhibition in London in 2015. The woolly mammoth took nine weeks to build.
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    The company's vice president of design left fashion for his "ultimate childhood dream" of working with the plastic bricks.

  • How to be a composer
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    Carter Burwell talks about his job making music for the big screen.

  • Carlos Guillen of the Seattle Mariners gets called out by umpire Rich Rieker during a game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Safeco Field in Seattle, Washington.
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    No, yelling "safe" at the TV doesn't count.

  • In this handout photo provided by Insomniac, the 4th Annual Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC), New York returns to MetLife Stadium Memorial Day weekend, May 23-24, 2015. 
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    Steve Lieberman has designed light displays for Coachella, Lollapalooza and Electric Daisy Carnival. Here's what it takes to do the job.

  • Melissa Bernstein started her career at Morgan Stanley ... but once she ditched investment banking and started making toys, she found her dream job.  
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    Melissa Bernstein of Melissa & Doug on how she does her job.

  • “Every time, I'm still humbled by the absolute beauty of the city, of the architecture and of the cultural heritage that I'm able to share,” says Jonathan Lerner of Barcelona. Above, La Sagrada Família basilica.
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    Jonathan Lerner put his passion for people, culture and history to work when he founded Tailored Tours Barcelona.

  • The Zamboni machine resurfaces the ice during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games, at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung on February 10, 2018.
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    Ice technician Ryan Hevern on what it takes to create Olympic-caliber hockey and figure skating rinks.

  • Sarah Fidler, Flavor Guru at Ben & Jerry's. 
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    A Ben & Jerry's Flavor Guru talks about how she got her job and what it's like to make ice cream.

  • Chimney Rock Winery in Napa Valley, CA, where Elizabeth Vianna is the winemaker and general manager. 
    Courtesy Chimney Rock Winery

    According to winemaker Elizabeth Vianna, making wine is more scientific and less romantic than most people think.

  • Attired in a training version of his spacesuit, astronaut Doug Wheelock, Expedition 24 flight engineer and Expedition 25 commander, awaits the start of a spacewalk training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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    Advice from a former International Space Station Commander.

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