'Black Swans' Risks Pay Off

'Black Swans' Risks Pay Off A horror movie set in the world of ballet? Small budget? Darren Aronofsky? It's an unlikely recipe for a smash hit, and its success is surprising even its makers.."A horror movie...

Critics Choice Awards 2011

Critics Choice Awards 2011Alice in wonderland is nominated for best comedy/musical?? Wow they really messed up this year LOL.. Critics Choice got it right, I agree with most of their nominations. "critics choice...

Britain’s Wildlife Winter Crisis.

With the icy weather predicted to last at least another week, this winter could be the single greatest wildlife killer of the new millennium. The savage wintry weather is pushing Britain’s wildlife to the brink of...

Edward and Bella 'Twilight' Clothing Released by Hot Topic

The new Twilight clothing line has just been released so now you can either look like Edward Cullen or Bella Swan, or at least wear pictures of them.  Hot Topic is the latest company to license the hugely...

New Photos of Swan Nebula Star Birth Revealed

In recent years, astronomers have discovered that the Swan Nebula is one of the youngest and most massive star in the Milky Way.The Swan Nebula Star, illuminating the sky at night with its dust composition and gas,...

Black Swan in a Pond

Park of Retiro in Madrid

Twilight Movie Debut

Update""Twilight," a vampire love story written and directed by women, opened at No. 1 in U.S. theaters, Box Office Mojo said Sunday.Twilight" tallied an estimated $70.55 million in its first weekend. The...

Murder Suspects Describe Two Killings in $2 Robbery

" The men arrested in the slayings of an aspiring Christian singer and his colleague at a Texas recording studio said in a chilling jailhouse interview the victims were killed at random in a robbery that netted...

"Twilight" leaves me thirsting for more vampire romance

"A slow startVampires, werewolves, and romance — and a heap of teen angst. A couple of my friends recommended Twilight to me last fall, and one even loaned me her copy of the book. I started reading it in...

Swan No. 6 has Avian Flu

Sad to see that this is yet another outbreak that the authorities are struggling to contain.   "Defra has now confirmed that a sixth mute swan has tested positive for highly pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza. The bird was one of several collected on 21 January as part...

Award for support of women scientists

"BOFFINS at the University of York are celebrating after being handed a gold standard for their support of women scientists. In the week that the BA Festival of Science has come to the city, the chemistry department at the university has become the first in the UK to win the...

Swan Hunter Shipyard Cranes To Move To India

"The shipyard cranes famous for mapping the skyline along the River Tyne in Newcastle are being dismantled and sent to India. The owner of the Swan Hunter yard, Jaap Kroese, has sold off the heavy equipment to an...

Shipwreck Yields Estimated $500 Million Haul

Update: Ownership of the treasure discovered two weeks ago in the Atlantic Ocean is being disputed. According to reports, the Spanish government claims that the treausre was discovered in Spanish waters and is the...

Iowa apes to name swans

The Great Ape Trust in Iowa, which is home to eight bonobo apes, is about to get two Trumpeter Swans in a nearby pond. This on its own is not a huge deal, but the fact that the apes get to name the swans...

Kofi Annan's Legacy of Failure

"United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan delivered his swan song today at the Truman Presidential Library in Missouri.[1] It was a thinly veiled parting shot at U.S. foreign policy delivered by an embittered...

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