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Standing in front of an international audience clutching her Best Actress Oscar, Sandra Bullock was perhaps the only person at the Kodak Theatre willing to admit some level of surprise about her giddy ascension to the ranks of Meryl Streep and Dame Helen Mirren - two of the acting titans she sweetly steamrolled over for the acting honor...
...climate scientists don't have all the answers, as they will freely and frequently admit, and even when researchers uncover a new piece of data, it isn't always clear what it means. That's very much the case with a new paper about methane emissions, published Thursday in Science. Based on a series of expeditions to the margins of the Arctic Ocean by ship and helicopter, University of Alaska researcher Natalia Shakhova and her colleagues report that methane, a greenhouse gas that is 30 times more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, is bubbling...
...thank, including the stars and director, since they would never thank the sound mixer. Anna said she'd like to avoid antagonizing J.J. Abrams, the powerful director of Star Trek. But she at least agreed to cut her list down so she was thanking only Abrams and to admit in the speech that she's doing it only so he'll hire her for Mission: Impossible 4. (See pictures of J.J. Abram's career...
White House officials admit there are risks in rejoining the scrum. "There is a theory among some in sports that SportsCenter has had this terrible impact on the fundamentals of sports because they highlight slam dunks and fancy passes," explains Pfeiffer. "The current media culture doesn't reward getting things done in government. It rewards saying the most outlandish things...
...unwashed masses on topics spanning from Spinal Tap to sharks, it also reinforced the perception of documentaries as cinematic Brussels sprouts—good for you, perhaps, but not interesting enough for a four-dollar rental, and certainly not worth five dollars to own. (I’ll admit that this was my thought process, and all fourteen of the movies I left with were fiction films...