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Remarkable sights meet routine story in "Oblivion"
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4/21/2013 6:36:52 PM
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"Oblivion," Tom Cruise's first dip into sci-fi since "War of the Worlds" as well as the year's first big blockbuster, may technically be an original sci-fi story, but it's in name only. The movie drives over well-tread ground, but it does so with such visual panache and slick beauty that it almost doesn't matter. Almost.
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Local actress makes a film with a purpose
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4/20/2013 11:58:03 AM
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Anna Lakomy caught the acting bug in the fourth grade when she was picked to play Pocahontas in the school play. She discovered the part helped classmates get to know her better.
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INTERVIEW: Dan Scanlon & Kori Rae on self-discovery in Monsters University
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4/22/2013 1:16:19 AM
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MUSE’s interview with the director (Dan Scanlon) and the producer (Kori Rae) of Monsters University, the prequel to 2001’s Monsters Inc.. Q: Thank you very much for doing this. How did the idea of a prequel for Monsters Inc. come about? DAN: Early on, we loved the characters of Mike and Sulley and we loved the relationship of Mike and [...]
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Top 10 reasons to watch ‘All The President’s Men Revisited’ Sunday
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4/19/2013 2:22:55 PM
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My Top 10 Reasons to Watch “All The President’s Men Revisited,” a terrific two-hour documentary looking back at Watergate hosted by actor Robert Redford Sunday (8 p.m., Discovery Channel). Redford, who starred as Bob Woodward in the film, narrates the film which moves seamlessly between 1970s news footage and the hit movie. For this 1970s ...
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12 (Misguided) Commandments of Gold Bugs: Barry Ritholtz
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4/19/2013 12:48:22 PM
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Gold prices have finally stabilized after falling roughly 11% over the last week. The yellow metal closed Thursday up 1.84% to $1,417 an ounce. The reason for the recent drop in gold prices is unclear but some cite Cyprus selling its gold to cover the cost of its bailout as a factor or central bank [...]
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A Human-Voiced Employee Handbook?
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4/19/2013 4:06:26 PM
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I was a corporate HR leader for twenty years. I wrote memos and announcements and newsletters and flyers all the time, and I tried to sound friendly and welcoming and human in everything I wrote. I knew that the most important part of my job as VP of Human Resources was to be the company’s [...]The post A Human-Voiced Employee Handbook? appeared first on The Human Workplace.
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Colorado Art Show Openings, 4/19/2013
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4/19/2013 6:31:07 AM
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"Parables," works by Katie Hoffman, new Encaustic paintings by Meg Voigt Meersman and "Figments: Tinkering in the Twilight Zone" by Claudia Roulier, through May 5. Also showing the "Colorado Academy Portfolio Art Show" in the Annex. Reception: 6-9 p.m. Friday. First Friday Artwalk: 6-9 p.m. May 3.
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Simi Valley students exercise to raise money for school
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4/19/2013 5:04:00 AM
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Eleven-year-old Maya Oviedo touched her toes and did other stretching exercises on the Garden Grove School IMPACT Academy field Thursday morning in preparation for a jog she planned on doing with her fifth-grade class.
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Little 500 energizes local bike scene
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4/19/2013 3:57:41 AM
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Jim Schroeder, president of the Bloomington Bicycle Club, moved to Bloomington because of the biking tradition of the town. He considers himself an “aficionado” of “Breaking Away,” the 1979 film chronicling the life and times of a local cycling...
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Sticky-Fingered Plant May Hold the Secret to Snaring Bed Bugs
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4/16/2013 2:40:50 PM
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For a bed bug, scurrying across the leaves of a kidney bean plant could quickly end any plans to foist itchy devastation upon unsuspecting sleepers. Now, using an imprint of the leaf itself, scientists have created a surface that mimics ...
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PRINCETON: Sallade returns to Boston Marathon
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4/19/2013 5:37:01 AM
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Chris Sallade will be among the more than 25,000 runners to start the 26.2 miles of the Boston Marathon on Monday, something that might have seemed quite a stretch for the one-time middle distance runner at Princeton University.
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Old Marks
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4/18/2013 4:18:35 PM
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The epigenome can be detected in some ancient human remains, the New Scientist reports. Following a report last year that DNA methylation could be detected in 26,000-year-old bison bones, the University of Texas at Austin's Rick Smith collected a number of ancient human remains for testing.
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Diva night for the Top 5 on 'Idol'
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4/18/2013 5:08:30 PM
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Hi friends. The Utah Jazz lost their last chance to make it to the NBA playoffs. I lost my mind and my heart. You needed to hear that, as it justifies some of my rudeness following this sentence.
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Not for the 'Faint of Heart'
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4/18/2013 4:18:25 PM
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Diagnostics are a tough business, writes life sciences venture capitalist Bruce Booth. And he should know — he's currently in the process of unwinding cancer diagnostics company On-Q-Ity, an investment by his firm, Atlas Ventures, that didn't quite work out.
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This Week in Nature
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4/18/2013 4:18:55 PM
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In this week's Nature , an international team of researchers led by the Broad Institute's Kerstin Lindblad-Toh report on the genomic sequence of the African coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae , which is part of a lineage of lobe-finned fish thought until the 1930s to have become extinct millions of years ago.
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