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...Best Actress nomination, now looks to be short-listed with Streep, as well as becoming the first actress to have a $200 million grossing movie to her name for The Blind Side. Waltz and 'Nique have had their Oscars locked down since winning a slew of awards last month from critics' groups that don't have their ceremonies on TV. (Read Tuned In: "NBC's Golden Globes: When It Rains, It Pours...
...first activist video game to reach a wide audience was Darfur Is Dying, a website-based game put out by MTV in 2006, in which gamers play refugees risking their lives to fetch water. In the game's first month, it reached 700,000 players. Since then, the game has prompted thousands of people to e-mail the White House or petition local representatives. It has also convinced MTV to include games in all its campaigns. "No other media enables you to literally run in someone's shoes," says Stephen Friedman, general manager of the music network. (See Techland...
...scale of 9/11 anywhere in the world. A 2007 study by Canada's Simon Fraser University found the global death toll from terrorist attacks has substantially decreased since 2001. While al-Qaeda plots do sometimes succeed - like the double-agent operation that killed seven CIA officers in Afghanistan last month - they have become, Rand terrorism expert Brian Jenkins points out, less frequent and less potent...
...approved the plan last month without those changes—a move that residents said they found disappointing but not surprising...
Harvard’s plans to sell a 62.5-acre parcel of land to the Town of Weston, Mass. have been temporarily derailed after engineers discovered high levels of lead and arsenic in the soil, and the sale—nearly a month overdue—has been put on hold until the University’s cleanup of the land...