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27 Mar, 2006

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reeveReeve appears on the cover of People after she is diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 44. Source:

Her compassion, her fortitude are a source of inspiration. Her impact is immeasurable.

18 Mar, 2006

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Watts talks about his time working for WWE:

Well, you know everything in the WWE is scripted. It was such a disappointment, the three months I was with Vince [McMahon], I’ll never forget, there was a problem that happened, we won’t go into it, where everybody was late and we were having a television shoot, and I had two top stars and they were going to have like a ten minute match, and they didn’t have enough time to get ready for it cause they only had an hour before show time. An hour for a ten minute match! I was fractured.

13 Mar, 2006

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crowCrow appears on the cover of People after breaking up with her fiance. Just three weeks later, Crow was diagnosed with cancer. Source:

I just tried to make sure she was in a good place, to keep the energy going. I felt she enjoyed herself. Two weeks later, when Crow revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, I was shocked. I wouldn’t have known in a million years, not for a second, that this was coming.

6 Mar, 2006

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lacheySimpson and Lachey appear on the cover of People after they separate. Lachey thinks he is entitled to spousal support and Simpson does not want to pay. Lachey on receiving a gala award:

In all honesty, it is a little ironic to receive this award right now. Because in some ways I feel like this is a point in my life when I’ve never been more afraid. I’d like to thank the people who allow me to be fearless. My friends and my family.

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Rusesabagina gives an interview to Winfrey for O Magazine about his memoir, An Ordinary Man. 

Men I’d known for years were carrying machetes, grenades, guns, spears any weapon you can think of. Neighbors I’d seen as gentlemen had suddenly become killers in military uniforms.

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Rusesabagina discusses how he survived the Rwandan genocide in 1994:

It was complicated. If you want to control someone, you’ve got to keep him close, talk to him. That’s what I did [with the armed men constantly threatening to take over the hotel]. The people inside were frightened. There was no water, no electricity, and we were cooking any corn and dried beans we could find with firewood.

20 Feb, 2006

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locklear1Locklear appears on the cover of People after separating from her husband after 11 years of marriage. A source on the provocative pictures her husband received:

Though the woman had long been a sore subject, Locklear never thought she and her husband had actually been romantic. Whatever conclusions she has now drawn from the photos, they were the final straw: She’s devastated. Absolutely devastated.

23 Jan, 2006

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angelinaPitt appears on the cover of People after revealing he and Jolie are expecting their first child together. Jolie:

Yes, I am pregnant. We’re due in the summer.

19 Jan, 2006

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The Atlas V rocket with the New Horizons probe is launched successfully. After 44 minutes and 53 seconds it separates from its solid-fuel kick motor. Five minutes later mission control receives the first signals from the probe that all is well. The fastest probe ever launched is hurtling through space at 36,000 mph on its three billion journey to Pluto. NASA:

Today, NASA began an unprecedented journey of exploration to the ninth planet in the solar system. Right now, what we know about Pluto could be written on the back of a postage stamp. After this mission, we’ll be able to fill textbooks with new information.

NASA's New Horizons Launches On Mission to Pluto

18 Jan, 2006

Launch delayed again

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Severe storms knock out power to the New Horizons mission control center at John Hopkins University in Maryland. Although they have backup power, the team wants to be sure they have enough backup before proceeding with critical operations like launching and early flight operations. They decide to delay the launch for the following day.

We’ve been working on this for 17 years so I don’t think a couple of days are going to hurt us.

17 Jan, 2006

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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, tucked snugly atop its Atlas 5 rocket, was unable to launch on Jan. 17, 2006 due to high winds at its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch site.Just two minutes and 42 seconds before the booster engines are to fire, flight controllers halt the launch of the New Horizons probe due to high ground winds which may compromise the safety of the launch. NASA:

We chose not to launch today because the ground winds were just a bit too high. The wind limit at the pad is 33 knots [and] we have exceeded that limit several times today.

1 Jan, 2006

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Davis talks to Winfrey for O Magazine about her role in the show Oval Office. 

We know how powerful media images are. The show is entertainment but seeing a woman in this role week after week makes people comfortable with the idea. That’s when television is of its greatest service. This show gives us a picture of a real woman with a somewhat rounded life. Some people have asked, Why do you have to include a family? Well, every president during my lifetime has had children.

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Davis talks about going through the process of starring in the movie Thelma & Louise:

I read the script a year before I got cast. After reading it, I thought, God, I have to be in this movie. When I told my agent, he said the role had already been taken. But then the movie went through several directors and many sets of women before the producer, Ridley Scott, decided to direct it himself. So my agent called Ridley—the guy he’d called weekly for a year—and asked, Would you consider Geena for the part? Ridley said, Anyone with this much passion obviously deserves a meeting. So I met him at the Four Seasons for tea. I had notes and notes and notes on the script. I poured out my guts for two hours straight about why I should play Louise.

31 Dec, 2005

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Graham is interviewed about hacker culture and starting Y Combinator for the 12 Weeks With Geeks documentary. On the success of the tech industry:

I think a lot of people who got involved with computers early on had no idea what they were going to do with them

Esquire interview

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Howard gives his thoughts on getting occasional bad reviews for movies he creates:

I keep asking myself, Why do I care? I know that my work is a result of 110 percent effort. I know how I feel about the film. Why do I care about reviews? Why do I care about the box office? But as soon as I ask the question, a voice in the back of my head always answers, Because youhave to care. You can’t live without caring. That’s who you are, and therefore you must suffer from time to time.