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Let’s talk about Adam Hills and Joan Rivers
OPINION: So, if you’ve been anywhere near the internet this week, you will be aware that Adam Hills is the new king of the GIF set jungle after his The Last Leg screed about Joan Rivers went viral. Here, play catch-up if you’ve not already seen it 10,000 times:
Chavez in a Cuban Hospital, Venezuela in Holding Pattern
No one ever got rich betting on the demise of Hugo Chvez. As a leftist Venezuelan paratrooper officer, he led a failed coup in 1992, but he was let out of prison just two years later and started campaigning for the presidency, which he won in 1998.
Rolling Stones Guitarist Keith Richards’ ‘Life’ Autobiography
Keith Richards has been the subject of many lurid rumors; most of them turn out to be understatements.
Kevin Clash: The Man Behind Sesame Street’s Elmo
Kevin Clash is an Emmy-award-winning performer and producer with dozens of TV and film credits to his name, but he’s far better known as a furry red monster. Clash is the puppeteer and the voice behind Elmo, one of the most popular characters on the seminal children’s television show Sesame Street, which this week marks its 40th anniversary with a series of special episodes and a two-disc DVD set, Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
Pakistan Govt Defiant in Face of bin Laden Criticism
Anyone hoping to see Pakistan’s civilian government hold the country’s powerful military establishment to account over Osama bin-Laden will have been disappointed by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s speech Monday.
World War: EASTERN THEATER: Decision in a Week?
After seven days of fighting, the German High Command was convinced its armies had defeated Russia's.
TEXAS: A Famous Man
Stocky, cheerful W. O.
Gulf Oil Spill: Few Changes in Drilling Policy One Year On
It took just a couple of days for Admiral Thad Allen to realize how disastrous the well blowout at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig would prove to be. On April 20 last year, the well being drilled by the BP-owned rig suddenly kicked back, spurting oil and gas up the drilling pipe and setting the Deepwater Horizon aflame in the Gulf of Mexico.
Nuclear Batteries
Nuclear-powered cars! airplanes! Fridges and freezers! In the heady days of the early 1950s — at the dawn of the civilian nuclear power age and President Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace program — nuclear optimists imagined a world powered by tiny nuclear reactors. Today, in an era of climate change and energy insecurity, the nuclear industry is dusting off some of those old dreams.