Word: cred
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bush is the first president to provide federal funding for this type of research. I can’t help but suspect, however, that the pool of contenders for the title is relatively small. I’m sure Taft or Lincoln would have enjoyed that kind of street cred and mad props, but when it came to the scientific induction of pluripotent stem cells from adult human fibroblasts, I guess they just couldn’t tear themselves away from getting stuck in bathtubs and freeing slaves (respectively) to log enough hours in the lab or scrape together...
...good idea: take a familiar tale—the Santa Claus story—and breathe some life into it by means of talented actors. Cast box office king Vince Vaughn as the protagonist, throw in a little Paul Giamatti, Kathy Bates, and Rachel Weisz to add some Oscar cred, and get Kevin Spacey to play the villain. You’ve gotta get Spacey to play the villain. The man put Gwyneth Paltrow’s head in a box in “Se7en,” so he’s sure to bring some lighthearted evil...
...lack of hard metrics for measuring these things makes it awfully easy for companies to gin up their equations and then brag about their green cred. But even the most cynical p.r. departments know that that's hardly a long-term solution. Climate change is already having a serious financial impact on business. Julie Gorte, a vice president for the mutual fund Pax World, points out that nearly half of the top-100 companies in the S&P 500 reported that their earnings had been affected by Hurricane Katrina--the kind of superstorm scientists believe will become more common...
...shots and attempts to create a hostile T.I. that not even a mother could love. the rapper’s dueling identities—the commercial T.I. and the rawer T.I.P.—against each other. This track is meant to remind listeners that T.I. has street cred and should be feared, as well as loved, by fans. While the video’s style takes pains to portray the rough underbelly of rap that no longer exists for some of its biggest stars, T.I. seems uncomfortable in a role he once played perfectly. Though he can swing...
...Nicaragua, a movement that started off channeling youth rebellion into the violent overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship in 1979 is once again the governing party. And in many poor neighborhoods, the Sandinista Front has more street cred than the local youth gang...