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The crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour carried out a record five spacewalks on their gruelling 12-day visit to the 200ft-long space station
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Carla Bruni:
French First Lady's nude picture will be auctioned at Christie's of New York on April 10.
One view of the French first lady the Queen won't be seeing during Sarkozy's state visit: a naked Carla Bruni
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Kate Moss
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Brazilian model Giselle Bundchen
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Paris Hilton takes a moment to admire her own ample cleavage (dailymail)
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Sarah Jessica Parker takes a tumble during Vogue photoshoot (dailymail)
101-year-old man to compete in London Marathon (xinhua)
Brazil's bank robber convicted to 49 years in prison (xinhua)
Graeme Smith and Neil McKenzie broke the world record for the first-wicket partnership when they passed 413 on day two in Chittagong
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Lionel Bringuier
Lionel Bringuier and the concept for the famed Walt Disney Concert Hall were born in the same year. Bringuier was born in Nice, France, but a precocious passion for music would inexorably link him to the Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California. At 21, he is the youngest conductor to lead an orchestra on the stage, one of the main venues of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Bringuier beat 150 applicants from around the world to become Assistant Conductor of the LAPhil. He applied when he was the assistant conductor of the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and a winner of the prestigious Besançon Young Conductors Competition. Bringuier honed much of his career in the “City of Lights” – starting when he was 5 years old, playing cello for the Countess of Paris.
Before snagging the position, Bringuier had never traveled to the United States, much less the “City of Angels.” Now it is his home as he serves his two-year appointment, complete with an office featuring orange leather sofas, Esa-Pekka Salonen as a colleague, and his old friends Mozart and Strauss. Bringuier sums it up best when he says, “Age isn’t important, music is.”
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Alexander Heffner
This year, 44 million Americans ages 18 to 29 will be eligible to vote. The youth vote will account for about a quarter of the entire electorate, which means the candidates are focused on getting young people to the polls. So is the founder of Scoop08, Alexander Heffner – but in a different way.
Heffner, an 18-year-old high school senior, organized 300 student volunteers from high schools and colleges from diverse regions and ideological backgrounds to work on what he calls “a new kind of newspaper.” Each student is dispatched on issue-based rather than horse race-focused beats, like “Libertarian Party,” “Rhetoric” and “Social Networking.” The idea behind Scoop08: young people covering the issues in a smart way, but also in a way that they would tell their friends.
Scoop08 is all about young people, but Heffner realized that help from the pros only makes the youth push better. The newspaper’s advisory board is stellar: Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, National Review founder William F. Buckley and Judy Woodruff of PBS, to name a few. At Scoop08, they know and respect the rules and norms of political coverage, and know how to break them.
Stephanie Mockler
In real life, her first car was a Volkswagen bug when she was 16. In her racing life, Stephanie Mockler was driving quarter midget cars, tiny racecars that children can drive, at the age of 6. Now at 20, she is a record-setting driver.
Mockler became the first female to win a USAC Ford Focus Midget Series when she finished at the Indianapolis Speedrome. She is also the eighth woman in the United States Auto Club’s history to win a feature race. And she is the youngest female to ever win a USAC main event.
She gets the whole “Danica Patrick” thing a lot. Patrick is a 25-year-old Indy Racing League driver. Mockler is quick to point out that not all racing is the same and that she hopes to take the NASCAR track. But one thing between them is the same, “When you put on the helmet, you’re just another racer.”
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Jason Rae
Not too many kids tell their parents who to vote for when they are 5 years old or ask their fourth-grade teacher to watch the presidential inauguration. But what would you expect from a 21-year-old superdelegate?
Jason Rae went from being a U.S. Senate page to the youngest elected representative of the Democratic National Committee while he was in high school. He actually couldn’t vote when he was first elected because he was six months shy of 18. But he wanted to represent what he calls “America’s next generation.” So, he and his friends hand-painted posters with the slogan “A ray of hope for the future.” It worked.
What about his future? Rae says, “I remember back in kindergarten saying I wanted to run for president, but I’ll settle for an elected office.” These days he is relishing the fact he’s being wooed by both sides for his coveted vote in the close Democratic race for the 2008 presidential nomination — dining with Sen. Hillary Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, meeting with Sen. Barack Obama and chatting with the highest-profile politicians from across the country.
How will he vote? He hasn’t said, but we’ll try to get it out of him.
Blake Taylor
Yes, he set fire to the dinner table with contact lens solution. Yes, he stayed in on the weekends because he had no friends. Yes, he had to clean the urinals as punishment for acting out in class. But Blake Taylor is done being punished and finally ready to proudly say to the world, “Yes, I have ADHD.”
According to the CDC, 4.7 million Americans 18 or under have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Now 18, Taylor is the youngest person to write a memoir about living with it. He says his book, “ADHD & Me,” is the guidebook he never had growing up – a way to deal with the daily struggles from someone who has actually been there and not just studied the disorder.
Taylor is now a freshman molecular biology major at the University of California, Berkeley, where his book is used in the curriculum. Professors tout it because it’s the first time academia and the general public can see the once-taboo disorder being tackled with candor, since diagnosis only really started to spike in the 1990s. Through anecdotes about taking tests and dealing with tics, Taylor aims to tackle the often-stigmatized side effects of the disorder, which if left untreated, he says, only worsen when someone gets older. “You wouldn’t want to set fire to a table ever, but especially not when you’re 30, right?”
Russia's Maria Sharapova sits on a motorcycle after defeating compatriot Vera Zvonareva in the final of the Qatar Open tennis tournament in Doha February 24,2008.
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched Saturday afternoon a rocket carrying a high-speed Internet communications satellite, which will cover the general Asia-Pacific region
100-year old wine in gold and sivler bottle
A bottle of 100 numbered handcrafted Crystal Liquor Bottles named "Henri Gold & Silver", dipped in Yellow Gold and Sterling Silver, is seen during a presentation in Mexico City Feb. 22, 2008. Each Bottle with an approximate weight of 6 kg (13.23 lbs.) , it is filled with 100 cl. of Dudognon Heritage Cognac Grande Champagne, aged in barrels for more than 100 years to produce an alcohol content of 41%. Each piece is valued at 9,000 Pounds Sterling ($17,503), Altamirano, the chief executive of the company said.
Indian folk dancers perform during the festival of gardens in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh February 22, 2008. The festival runs in the month of February every year for three days and includes flower shows and music and dance performances.
Mother of seven at age 16
BUENOS AIRES: A 16-year-old girl has given birth to triplets in Argentina — for the second time. The girl, named only as Pamela, had her first set of triplets aged 15, having already had a son at just 14.
Both sets of triplets are all girls and were born prematurely, reports the BBC. Doctors say the three newborns and their mother are well.
Pamela’s family already receives help from the provincial authorities, which donated land and built them a house when the first set of triplets was born.
Pamela’s mother, who cleans houses to support her daughter and grandchildren, says they will now seek more assistance from the government. Some Argentines are arguing that perhaps what Pamela needs is more advice on contraception.
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1872 - Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
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