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‘Big Brother’ hopes viewers click with cliques

Summer’s incomparably ridiculous, frequently abhorrent, maddeningly inane, and surprisingly addictive reality competition “Big Brother” returns July 9 for its 11th season, and fans cannot wait.

No contest for team of decade — Patriots rule

Hey, where’d the decade go? It seems like the turn of the century was just yesterday.

Winderman: Birdman, bench have Nuggets flying high

Danny Granger won the NBA's Most Improved Player of the Year award this week, and there is no question the Pacers forward was a deserving candidate, although a hearty debate could be made about Nets guard Devin Harris or Thunder forward Kevin Durant being snubbed.

The Four Seasons: NY 'power lunch' mecca turns 50

The Dalai Lama. Madonna. Bill Clinton. Mary J. Blige. And a 13-year-old celebrating his bar mitzvah, complete with scantily clad dancers his father hired to usher the teen into manhood.

Celizic: Griffin wise to leave Sooner rather than later

Blake Griffin made the right decision — in fact, the only sane decision — in choosing to leave Oklahoma after two seasons and move on to a full-time job in the NBA.

‘Biggest Loser’s’ weighty issues revealed

Wondering about how a certain reality show pulled something off? Have a question about a certain contestant?

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Fall Colors in Southwest Missouri
Source: FriendsOfTheGarden.org

This has been one of the most colorful fall seaons ever in southwest Missouri.

Army fires coach Jim Crews after seven seasons - ESPN
Source: ESPN.com

Army fired Jim Crews as men's basketball coach after seven seasons with the academy.

El Niño shows manly strength, keeps hurricane season quiet
Source: MiamiHerald.com

Hurricane season hit its official peak Thursday and the year so far can perhaps be best summed up this way: El Niño, you da man!

A strawberry's journey: as engineered as a laptop computer and maybe as well- travelled
Source: Toronto Star

Besides the odd pang of guilt, few of us think about what goes into those berries. How do they grow them so big? How do they get across a continent unblemished? How do they grow in November? We went to California to find out.

Poll: What's Your Favorite Season?

I have the good fortune of living in a part of the world that has four distinct seasons. None are extreme, each has its highlights and the ever-changing landscape and lifestyle that comes with seasonal change makes life interesting.

Spring Hopes Eternal! A photo journal

Nature's time of re-birth and awakening after a long and in many places arduous winter. It is as if the leaves appeared overnight. The colors of Spring radiant in their debut.

Paint me the Autumn Colors (Poem)

Paint me the autumn colors I'm so in awe of them paint me, the golden streets bathed in the rainbow's blend Paint me flowers my friend on the turf, and on them trees breaking free from their strands and posing with the shredded leaves

All Earth's Seasons Now Arrive Two Days Earlier, Researchers Report
Source: Science Daily

Not only has the average global temperature increased in the past 50 years, but the hottest day of the year has shifted nearly two days earlier, according to a new study by scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University.

Spring Coming Earlier, Study Says
Source: National Geographic

Tired of winter? Good news: Spring arrives an average of 1.7 days earlier now than it did in the first half of the 20th century, according to a new study.

In hope of the coming Spring...

Winter covers the ground with it's icy, white cloak. Shivering, I stand and gaze out at the frigid landscape. Bare trees stand tall in the distance, leaves long gone, reaching naked up to the sun as if begging for a little warmth.

Food Can Comfort Without Fattening
Source: WESH.com

Video: Comfort food tastes and feels good in cold weather, but may be fattening.

Natural Allergy Relief
Source: WebMD Health

If spring and fall send your seasonal allergies into a spin, many experts say look to Mother Nature for relief that can be as comforting and easy as a day at the beach.

Poetry: Life, Like Seasons

Life, like seasons, slowly passes onward As childhood hopes transform to mature dreams Never standing, ever moving forward As simple plans transform to complicated schemes. Sweet is youth and so too is joyous spring Where gentle rain bring flowers sweetest blooms, And carefree da …

"Jersey Boys" Biggest Fan
Source: The Minneapolis Star Tribune

A Groupie Who's Not a Groupie. This poor lady has never met her idols "The Four Seasons".

Why Stars Have Seasons
Source: Live Science

Have you ever wondered why most star patterns are associated with specific seasons of the year? Just why, for instance, can evening sky watchers in the Northern Hemisphere enjoy Orion the Hunter only during the cold wintry months? During balmy summer evenings it is not Orion, but …

Reason for Earthquake Season Revealed
Source: Live Science

Hurricanes and tornadoes have seasons, but do earthquakes? They do in the Himalayas, and it's during the winter.

SPACE.com -- Full Moon Names for 2008
Source: Space.com

Full moon names were bestowed by the Native Americans of what is now the northern and eastern United States. A few hundred years ago, those tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full moon.

History of Birthdays
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Before humans had a way of keeping time, no one paid much attention to the anniversary of important events, such as birthdays.

Industry insiders say strike could change the face of TV
Source: TV Squad

Maybe the strike's not all bad. That's what some studio executives are saying in this Variety article. The winter TCA Tour has been canceled already and upfronts are now in jeopardy.

Mix: To Everything There Is a Season: Winter '08

Last winter I started a project in which I explored a season through music. I made playlists for each season filled with the music that really put me a mood matching each time of year.

Changes in Life, or Red leaves, now gone

In the week before Thanksgiving, I noticed the bright red leaves on a crepe (sometimes spelled crape) myrtle bush by my deck. I got out my digital camera and got close to it. You'll see from photos here that what at first seems red, is a mix of other colors, as well.

Cold planet: The many ice ages of Mars
Source: PhysOrg.com

Mars has experienced 40 major ice ages over the past five million years, when vast areas of its porous soil froze and thawed again, according to computer simulations released on Wednesday. The changes mainly result from Mars' angle of rotation, which is so extreme that the Red P …

Top 10 athletes without championships
Source: Fox Sports

Top 10 athletes without championships

Sex ends as seasons shift and kisspeptin levels plummet
Source: EurekAlert!

A hormone implicated in the onset of human puberty also appears to control reproductive activity in seasonally breeding rodents, report Indiana University Bloomington and University of California at Berkeley scientists in the March 2007 issue of Endocrinology.

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