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When that something better did come along, Clarkson did something unusual for a reality-show contestant--she let her 15 minutes elapse. Thankful wasn't released until seven months after her big TV moment, giving her and RCA records chief Clive Davis time to figure out how to balance the expectations of people who wanted an Idol souvenir with those who demanded signs of artistic growth. The finished product was a pleasant trifle that alienated no one and produced a deserving hit, Miss Independent, but it didn't earn Clarkson much capital with RCA or her management firm...
...Queensland authorities invested great faith and resources in a relocation program for troublesome crocodiles. Animals spotted near humans were captured, then released in remote areas including the Normanby River system in the 577,000-ha Lakefield National Park. After the Jefferies attack, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service regional director Clive Cook said no crocodiles had been relocated to Lakefield since 1997. But according to a research paper by a visiting American scientist, Chris Kofron, 12 crocodiles were relocated into the park between 1999 and 2001. Cook now says he was only "making a general observation" about crocodile relocation. He says...
...packets are painted onto tiny gold pellets (an ideal delivery medium) and shot into the body at supersonic speeds with the press of a button on a gene gun. "In the event of a pandemic, you don't need health-care workers to deliver this vaccine," says Clive Dix, PowderMed CEO. "You could train people in 10 minutes." Early safety studies showed promising results, and PowderMed hopes to continue testing its vaccine against avian- and seasonal-flu strains next year...
...Slang Lexicon. There is no one like this man working in entertainment today.The Crimson interviewed the self-described “organizer, producer, and mastermind of the Wu-Tang Clan,” because he is promoting “Derailed,” the trashy new Clive Owen-Jennifer Aniston flick, in which he plays Winston, the philosophical gun-toting sidekick of Owen’s cheatin’ man. PRINCE RAKEEMMany rappers, from Ice-T to 50 Cent to Snoop Dogg have tried to make the jump to the silver screen, but RZA is trying to build...
...French thug or the martyrdom of The Wu-Tang Clan’s The RZA. In my limited experience, at least.However in “Derailed,” the appallingly bad star vehicle for post-“Friends” Jennifer Aniston and never-Bond Clive Owen, anything is possible.The “thrilling” plot—which aspires to twist and turn but really lurches and falls off the tracks—is, ostensibly, the story of dissatisfied corporate executives Charles Schine (Owen) and Lucinda Harris (Aniston) who meet on a Chicago train and cautiously...