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...found a cause they can win: using the Clemenceau as a precedent to prevent the dispatch of contaminated ships to the developing world. "For us, there is absolutely no ambiguity," says Yannick Jadot, director of campaigns for Greenpeace France. "The Basel Convention has clearly stated that whatever the legal status of the boat, from the moment it's being sent for demolition, it's waste. Period. We're seeing a flagrant disregard for international...
...show that offers a shot to the little guy is not shy about advertising its overdog status. On the season debut, host Ryan Seacrest narrated a tribute to the show's popularity. "What started as a simple talent quest has become a national phenomenon," he said over video of seas of teen and twentysomething applicants thronging stadiums and audition halls like pilgrims on the hajj. "It's become a modern rite of passage, like going to the prom. You get your first car, you graduate from high school, and when we roll into your town, you audition for American Idol...
Alex Jones, the director of the Shorenstein Center and a former media reporter for the Times who has written a history of the paper, said Okrent’s status as a founding father of fantasy baseball was not a factor in his selection as one of ten fellows for this academic year out of a pool of 75 applicants...
...realized that Pluto is just an especially big-and not even the biggest-of a giant swarm of icy bodies, known collectively as the Kuiper Belt, which orbits the Sun out beyond Neptune. If it's just one among many, it either has to be downgraded from its original status as a full-fledged planet, or at least a handful of other big Kuiper Belt objects have to be added to the list. But in any case, these lumps of ice haven't melted since the origin of the Solar System some 4.4 billion years ago, and so, unlike...
...rule we do not report on people’s current membership status and payment status,” Cetrulo wrote in an e-mail...