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Today on Planet 100: Frozen Zoo (Video)

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Today on Planet 100: Frozen Zoo (Video)

EPA Administrator Pens Blog Against Murkowski’s ‘Dirty Air’ Amendment

photo via EPA The pundits are saying that the vote on Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s amendment to upend the EPA’s Endangerment Finding, which says the CO2 and other greenhouse gases are warming the planet, could be a harbinger of things to come on the Senate climate and energy bill. This is probably not the case, since the Murkowski language could never get through the House and the president wouldn’t sign it. Nonetheless, EPA chief Lisa jackson posted a blog today on the

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Today on Planet 100: The Pacific Trash Vortex Explained (Video)

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Today on Planet 100: Top 5 Eco Athletes (Video)

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Today on Planet 100: Sinkhole Monster (Video)

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Justin Bieber Teams Up With Jaden Smith

Jaden Smith is the son of one of the biggest movie stars on the planet. As a result, he’s starring in a remake of The Karate Kid , one of the most beloved films in cinematic history. But in case it wasn’t clear that Jaden was the luckiest youngster in Hollywood, consider this: he duets with Justin Bieber on the flick’s theme song, “Never Say Never.” Let’s just hope Smith didn’t touch Justin at any point during their time together. We know how much the singer hates that … Never Say Never

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Today on Planet 100: Deadly Heat In India (Video)

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Michael Pollan on the Food Movement, Rising

Farmers Market, Union Square, New York City: Photo by Lloyd Alter On the pretext of reviewing five books on food and food politics, Michael Pollan writes a long and interesting essay in the New York Review of Books. He writes that “Cheap food has become an indispensable pillar of the modern economy. But it is no longer an invisible or uncontested one. One of the most interesting social movements to emerge in the last few years is the “food movement,” or perhaps I should say “movements,” since it is unified as yet by little more … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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James Franco: From Soap Star to Apes Man?

Rock me, Dr. Zaius! Continuing his non-traditional career path, James Franco has signed on to star in Rise of the Apes, a prequel to Planet of the Apes, according to Variety. Based on a…

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Arab-American from Michigan crowned 2010 Miss USA

LAS VEGAS – A 24-year-old Arab American from Michigan beat out 50 other women to take the 2010 Miss USA title Sunday night, despite nearly stumbling in her evening gown. Rima Fakih of Dearborn, Mich., won the pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip after strutting confidently in an orange and gold bikini, wearing a strapless white gown that resembled a wedding dress and saying health insurance should cover birth control pills. When asked how she felt about winning the crown, she said, “Ask me after I've had a pizza.” Fakih, a Lebanese immigrant, told pageant organizers her family celebrates both Muslim and Christian faiths. She moved to the United States as a baby and was raised in New York, where she attended a Catholic school. Her family moved to Michigan in 2003. Pageant officials said historical pageant records were not detailed enough to show whether Fakih was the first Arab American, Muslim or immigrant to win the Miss USA title. The pageant started in 1952 as a local bathing suit competition in Long Beach, Calif. More—- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100517/ap_on_en_tv/us_miss_usa;_ylt =Aping5Mmwf73CT6yYYE.p.kDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTJobW1hMHY4BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNTE3L3VzX21pc3NfdXNhBHBvcwMxNgRzZWMDeW5fYXJ0aWNsZV9zdW1tYXJ5X2xpc3QEc2xrA2Z1bGxuYnNwc3Rvcg– added by: remanns