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(CSRwire) WASHINGTON, DC - April 9, 2008 - The Aspen Institute and National Geographic magazine are pleased to announce that video and audio clips from the first-ever Aspen Environment Forum are now available online. A powerful, four-day gathering of more than 350 thought leaders that began on March 26, 2008, in Aspen, CO, the Aspen Environment Forum was designed to stimulate open-minded dialogue about the future of our shared environment and how we, as citizens, corporations and countries, can be responsible stewards.
“The Aspen Institute places significance on discussion, on dialogue, on spirited debate around any number of issues,” says David Monsma, the executive director of the Institute’s Energy and Environment program. “And the Aspen Environment Forum is no different.”
“National Geographic magazine has a long history of reporting on the environment, and we are delighted to have brought together so many voices around the issues,” said Chris Johns, editor in chief of the magazine.
Clips available to the public already include urban environmental activist Majora Carter; Earth Policy Institute Founder Lester Brown; J. Carl Ganter of Circle of Blue; David Malakoff of NPR; Colorado Gov. William Ritter; and Tim Appenzeller, executive editor of National Geographic, interviewing Harvard University’s E.O. Wilson. Clips will continue to be added to the site at www.aspenenvironment.org/live-from-the-forum. The Aspen Institute’s YouTube channel is rich with video at www.youtube.com/aspeninstitute, and podcasts are available on iTunes.
National Geographic magazine’s online coverage of the Forum is at http://ngm.typepad.com/aspen_forum. It features interviews of key speakers, including E.O.Wilson, Canadian Inuit activist and Nobel Prize nominee Sheila Watt-Cloutier, and National Geographic Emerging Explorer Alexandra Cousteau.
Visit these sites to hear E.O. Wilson caution that we need to save the “living environment” because “if we only try to save the physical environment, we’ll lose both,” and watch Majora Carter call out to “make the invisible places visible.”

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The USS Nimitz, subject of “Carrier,” a 10-hour documentary airing on PBS. (U.S. Navy Photo)
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The Manassas man should have boarded the Washington state-based USS Carl Vinson after naval training school, but a delay sent him to Southern California and a tour of duty aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.
Within a few short months, Altice, then 20, fell in love with a young woman who became pregnant with their child just before he deployed to the Persian Gulf from May 7 to Nov. 8, 2005. His long-distance relationship under stressful conditions is among the stories chronicled in "Carrier," a 10-hour documentary series on PBS.
“I never thought it would be such a big part of the film,” Altice said. “But what I was going through was just what a lot of the guys on the ship go through.”
The Nimitz is a floating city that stands 24 stories high and is three football fields long. It carries 85 military aircraft and more than 5,000 Navy personnel with an average age of 19.
Executive producer Maro Chermayeff said it was a long and difficult process to get access to film, but once that was accomplished there was no interference. The filmmakers embedded on the ship got unprecedented access to film the crew, who gave unfiltered interviews about everything from how the war on terrorism was being fought to gays in the military.

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CHRIS Hedges has seen the worst of humanity. A former foreign correspondent for The New York Times, the Princeton resident spent 20 years covering foreign wars and the extremist beliefs that often fueled them.
And he sees connections between what he calls the “proto-fascist movements” in Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo and religious and anti-religious fundamentalists in the United States.
Mr. Hedges, the author of five books, plans to discuss these connections and the dangers they pose to American democracy when he appears at the Princeton Public Library April 16 as part of its Writers Talking series.
His time covering the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia into smaller, ethnically distinct states and the genocidal violence that fracturing ignited left a deep impression on him and led to the writing of his first book, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning (Random House, 2003). The book, published in 2002, details the impacts that war can have on individuals and society. War becomes like an addictive drug for those involved, he says in the book. The warrior — and the war correspondent — become juiced on adrenaline, intoxicated by the extremity of the moment especially when compared to the regularity of daily life.
For society, however, the impact is greater. War, he said in a 2003 interview on the PBS show Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, “has an allure, a fascination, a draw that sweeps across national lines, ethnicity, race, religion. It has perverted, corrupted and ultimately destroyed societies and nations across the globe.”
And it has the potential to unleash a kind of nationalist and religious fervor that demonizes outsiders, whether they be from different races, religions or ethnic groups, or dissenters from the majority views, he says.
His two latest books — American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (Simon & Schuster, $25) and I Don’t Believe in Atheists (Simon & Schuster, $25) — can be viewed as companion pieces that explore this process of deification and demonization. American Fascists focuses on the Christian right’s conflation of religious and nationalist iconography to create a theology that he says distorts the Christian message.

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NEW YORK — An NFL draft day that started Long (Jake) and Long (Chris) wound up being very deep for USC.
A school-record seven Trojans were selected in the first two rounds. That eclipsed the previous mark of five, set in 1968 and 2006.
USC Coach Pete Carroll envisioned this type of NFL payoff when he took over the football program before the 2001 season.
“It seems like years ago, when we first sat around with the first group of guys, what we hoped was to make the mark of having four or five guys in the first round,” Carroll said. “That’s what we had seen was possible when schools have a good run. We’re right in the middle of that and we’re proud of it.”
On a day when no other school had more than two players taken in the first round, four Trojans heard their names called: defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis (seventh to New Orleans), linebacker Keith Rivers (ninth to Cincinnati), tackle Sam Baker (21st to Atlanta) and defensive end Lawrence Jackson (28th to Seattle).
Three more USC players were taken in the second round: guard Chilo Rachal (39th to San Francisco), tight end Fred Davis (48th to Washington) and cornerback Terrell Thomas, the final pick of the day (63rd to the New York Giants).
“The guys who came back for their senior year were rewarded for their hard work,” Jackson said in a phone interview. “It’s a great day for the school.”
Baker, a four-year starter, benefited from a run on offensive tackles in the middle of the first round, when the Falcons traded up to get him before Houston could take him 26th. Atlanta, which cut left tackle Wayne Gandy this off-season, needs a blind-side blocker to protect its biggest rookie investment: Boston College quarterback Matt Ryan, chosen third overall.

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ITHACA, N.Y. - The No. 6/8 Cornell University men’s lacrosse team used five unanswered goals in the opening quarter of play to go up early and then held Binghamton scoreless for over 34 minutes late, as it defeated the Bearcats, 12-5, this afternoon on Schoellkopf Field. With the win, the Big Red improves to 6-1 overall, while the Bearcats fall to 2-3 on the season.
“I felt that early on, in the first 15 to 20 minutes, we were very working hard but we still aren’t getting some of the same results that we had last year,” said head coach Jeff Tambroni. “It’s a work in progress … so we’re happy just to be getting wins.”
Ryan Hurley continued his hot streak, scoring a game-high four goals, while Chris Ritchie also posted four points on two goals and two assists. John Espey had three points (one goal, two assists) and Kyle Doctor scored twice and added an assist late in the game for three points. Chris Finn was the only other mutli-point scorer, as he found the back of the net two times.
Jake Boyce and Chris Mulheron registered two goals apiece for Binghamton with Boyce adding an assist for a team-high three points.
In goal, Jake Myers made six saves in 45:57, including several impressive saves in the first quarter to help keep the Bearcats scoreless. Mat Martinez came on in relief with 14:03 left in the contest and made two saves, while allowing one goal. For Binghamton, Larry Kline kept the visitors in the game with 10 saves in 56:25 before Jeff Walker made an appearance but did not face a shot.
Cornell outshot Binghamton (39-19) and held the slim advantage in ground balls (33-32). The Big Red also won 11-of-20 face-offs, thanks mostly to Tommy Schmicker, who took 10-of-17 restarts. The home team also converted 1-of-2 extra-man opportunities, while holding Binghamton to 0-of-5 in man-up situations.

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Mary Ann from ‘Gilligan’s Island’ on probation
DRIGGS, Idaho, March 12 (UPI) — The actress who played Mary Ann on the U.S. sit-com “Gilligan’s Island” was arrested after police pulled her over and allegedly found marijuana in her car.
Dawn Wells, 69, was pulled over in Teton County, Idaho, for allegedly swerving and repeatedly speeding up and slowing down after her birthday party last October, TMZ.com reported Tuesday.
Police said they recovered four half-smoked joints, as well as two small cases used to store marijuana, when they searched her vehicle, the report said.
Wells is said to have claimed the items were not hers but belonged to hitchhikers.
The actress pleaded guilty to one count of reckless driving and was sentenced last month to five days in jail, fined $410.50 and placed on six months unsupervised probation, TMZ.com said.
Idaho’s KIDK.com said Wells was initially charged with Driving While Intoxicated, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance but those charges were dropped in exchange for the reckless driving guilty plea.
Jacobson not happy about ‘L&O’ episode
CHICAGO, March 12 (UPI) — A Chicago reporter fired after she went to a subject’s house in a bikini said she doesn’t think it’s funny “Law & Order” appears to be referencing her story.

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“Purdue is known for their defensive ends, so I thought it was a great move for me,” he said. “Being a little quicker than the average defensive end, I think it played to my advantage. I was happy to make the move.
“There are a lot of big names in our class,” he said. “It’s real deep, but we’re all different at the same time. I don’t think one of the defensive ends in this class are exactly the same. We’re all different, and we all bring different things to the table.”

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The programming ploy, inspiring some trepidation from MTV executives, comes in support of the official launch of Jackassworld.com, which offers a slate of absurd Web-based fare. Since its soft launch earlier this year, the site, a joint venture between MTV and Dickhouse Productions, had recorded 2.6 million streams of online theatrical Jackass 2.5http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6512733.html?q=Jackass+2%2E5, according to executives.
“What better way to celebrate the artistic and cultural merits of the Jackass crew than to develop a new site dedicated to their hilarious and cringe-inducing antics in a way that's never been done before,” said Courtney Holt, executive vice president of digital music and media for MTV Networks' Music & Logo Group, in a statement. “Jackassworld.com unites legions of jackasses worldwide in an awe-inspiring community where they can relive their favorite moments from the franchise and stumble upon original and surprising new features added daily.”
As for the on-air marathon, viewers, in addition to in-studio antics, can expect to see Knoxville, working in conjunction with BMX legend Mat Hoffman and some of the best stunt riders in the world, in an homage to the late Evel Knievel. A few of the guys going for broke in the spirit of the world-famous daredevil: Travis Pastrana, Scott Palmer, Allen Cooke, Davin “Psycho” Halford, Trigger Gumm, Jeff “Harley” Schneider, and Midget Mike.
During the 24-hour stunt, behind-the-scenes footage and highlights also will be posted in real-time to the site. Viewers can get in on the action by submitting video questions to the cast and crew through Jackassworld.com http://www.jackassworld.com and potentially dictate what happens on-air. The best-of-the-worst ideas via text messaging may also make to the TV screen.
“I just heard they are bringing a "box of stuff that sucks.' Who knows what else they will bring,” said MTV executive vice president of series development and programming Tony DiSanto in a statement. “I'm not going to ask, but it will definitely be can't miss TV since literally anything can and will happen.”
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