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The world of golf may have glimpsed its future Thursday in the form of Guan Tianlang, a 14-year-old eighth-grader from Guangzhou, China. With a series of gutsy chips and clutch putts, Guan notched four birdies and carded a 1-over-par 73.
via WSJ.com: Lifestyle http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323741004578416812235319272.html?mod=WSJ_GoogleNews
The Common Core is a set of national standards meant to deepen students’ skills and knowledge beyond what is currently taught.
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Welcome to Taipei!
via Vanity Fair | VF.com http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/04/memo-to-the-new-york-times-what-actually-happens-during-36-hours-in-a-foreign-country
The former ‘Seinfeld’ actress begins her second season a heartbeat away from the presidency on the HBO series Sunday, happy to be juggling her comedic, acting and producing skills as the bungling Vice President Selina Meyer.
BALTIMORE — The good staffers of Vice President Selina Meyer’s office had been trying to put out a fire all afternoon when their slightly discombobulated leader, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, turned up on the set of HBO’s “Veep.”
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via L.A. Times – Entertainment News http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-st-julie-louis-dreyfus-veep-season-two-20130411,0,7136218.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fentertainment+%28Entertainment+News%29
It seems almost unfair: Big brands like Lincoln Motor Co. and Johnnie Walker laid out big bucks for commercial time during the season premiere of “Mad Men,” but Koss Corp. slipped into the script without paying a cent. And there was no DVR-powered skipping through the headphone-maker’s airtime, either.
The downside for Koss, of course, was a total absence of control.
Koss, the Milwaukee-based company, only learned it was being used at the last minute and had absolutely no say on the matter. Like other brands written into “Mad Men”‘s universe, its executives didn’t see the episode before it aired or have any input on a script that used Koss in a central way: to allow Peggy Olson to show off her creative and crisis-management chops.
via Advertising Age – Homepage http://adage.com/article/media/koss-headphones-capitalized-mad-men-role/240796/?utm_source=Media&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+AdvertisingAge/Media
Pretty freaking scared, according to some experts. Then again, the question of whether North Korea can ‘miniaturize’ a nuclear weapon remains eerily unanswered. Eli Lake reports.
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via The Daily Beast – Latest Articles http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/11/how-scared-should-you-be-about-north-korea.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
Contemporary artist Takashi Murakami returns with a solo-show and live-action film. He talks to Jean Trinh about the Fukushima disaster and his influences.
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via The Daily Beast – Latest Articles http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/11/takashi-murakami-on-religion-in-jellyfish-eyes-and-his-new-exhibition.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
The AOL accounts of actor Jeffrey Tambor and his wife have been breached during the mysterious perpetrator’s months-long online crime spree.
via The Smoking Gun RSS http://157.166.224.196/buster/jeffrey-tambor-guccifer-hack-912873
Christopher Knight, aka the “North Pond Hermit,” has been living in the woods of Rome, Maine for nearly three decades. Last week though, a Maine Warden Service sergeant reportedly caught Knight burglarizing a campsite. According to police this was only the latest in more than 1,000 burglaries Knight is suspected of committing over the years. The Maine State Police told CNN “that the arresting warden was the second person Knight had been in contact with in 27 years.”
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via Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2013/04/10/north-pond-hermit-suspecte.html
Women are better off without bras. Professor Jean-Denis Rouillon has spent 15 years measuring 130 women’s breasts with a slide rule and calipers, and concludes “Medically, physiologically, anatomically – breasts gain no benefit from being denied gravity”.
via MetaFilter http://www.metafilter.com/126905/Bras-are-a-false-necessity