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...into the Extension School, Columbia, and California State University, Fullerton. A federal judge in Greenville characterized her as a scheming manipulative criminal, according to the Associated Press. Reed’s scam was unveiled in 2006 when she applied for a job in Manhattan, using the persona of Brooke Henson, a South Carolina woman reported missing since 1999. She was indicted in September 2007 in Greenville S.C., on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, and identity theft, Ed Donovon, a Secret Service spokesman, told the Crimson in an interview in 2008. The Secret Service—best known for defending...
...cross data between the various measurements.” The data the plane collects will be “fed into computer models” in order to help “put together the picture of where the carbon dioxide is coming from,” said Bob Henson, a science writer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The outputs of such models could potentially contribute to global discussions about the environment, he said. The mission, which has been in the works since 2004, will cost “$2 million for the science and another $2 million...
...partnership between the show's key pilots, Jim Henson and Joan Ganz Cooney: "It was Henson who helped the grandest and most ambitious experiment in children's television find its legs ... Henson's touch helped definitively establish Sesame Street's 'delicate balance between fun and learning,' as he once described it. Cooney understood from the show's earliest days, back before it became a brand of excellence here and around the globe, that using television to teach the alphabet and counting to twenty would have been a noble effort, but not nearly as much fun, without...
...Muppets that formed the show's backbone and became a cultural franchise of their own: "Considering that most Muppets start out as bath mats with appliqués, it's fairly miraculous that they seem to have more dimensionality to their personalities than do most human characters on television ... [Henson] understood that viewers would suspend their sense of disbelief if they saw pieces of themselves in the characters. Forgetful Jones had a foible, and he was therefore funny and as recognizable as the elderly neighbor who always seemed surprised when the paper boy came to collect on Fridays. The Count...
...George Balanchine for more than four decades, but it was Kermit Love's contribution to the Sesame Street cast that he is best remembered for. Love helped create the beloved characters Cookie Monster, Snuffleupagus, Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird--complete with molting yellow feathers. Though many believe Jim Henson's Kermit the Frog was named after him, Love maintained that it was merely a coincidence...