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Most people who write for TV are not famous. How good of a TV writer must Joss Whedon be, that he is famous for it? The answer is, very good. Whedon - who is also a director-producer-creator person - is the man behind, among other brilliant things, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (which if you don't know what that is, it's very important that you find out immediately). (Read about Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog...
...actually don’t think that a lot of people know where it came from. I think a lot of people think that it was created by the campaign for the campaign. It’s the work of art that’s become famous, not necessarily the artist...
...Which is just what their constituents in Maine like and expect from their Senators. The state has a tradition of flinty Yankee independence that dates back to another Republican Senator, Margaret Chase Smith, who in 1950 issued her famous Declaration of Conscience against McCarthyism - with Senator Joe McCarthy sitting only three seats behind her in the chamber. Maine doesn't bend easily to the prevailing political winds. Locals take a perverse pride in the fact that no other state has voted more consistently for the loser in modern presidential elections. And while they voted for Obama last fall...
...years, Dayton, Tenn., has had a monkey on its back. That monkey is the English naturalist Charles Darwin, whose 200th birthday is being celebrated on Feb. 12 in hundreds of cities around the world. Darwin's treatise On the Origin of Species was instrumental to the town's famous 1925 Scopes trial, which pitted noted trial lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan against each other in a fight to determine whether evolution should be taught in Tennessee public schools. (Read TIME's original 1925 story on the Scopes "monkey trial...
...because of the scale and severity of the global recession, companies appear to be fighting a losing battle. As losses mount and order books shrink, mass layoffs are necessary for survival. In Japan, where carmakers and consumer electronics manufacturers are confronting unprecedented losses, many of the country's most famous firms have been forced to break tradition and announce major job cuts. Just this week, carmaker Nissan said it would reduce its global workforce by 20,000, or about 8%. A few days before Nissan's announcement, Panasonic announced 15,000 layoffs and NEC another...