Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Snoop Dogg, Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts, Ben Stiller, Will Smith, Steven Spielberg, and Justin Timberlake, encourage and inspire young people to vote and participate in the upcoming election.
Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar, is the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia. On Friday May 2, 2008, Cyclone Nargis hit southwestern Burma with winds at speeds of 120 mph. This is the worst natural disaster in Asia since the boxing day Tsunami in 2004. In addition to the damage done by Cyclone Nargis, human rights abuses still continue in Burma.
Google released a useful new Gmail feature in its labs, which could help prevent the intoxicated from sending embarrassing late-night emails they might regret in the morning. The name is derived from the slang term “beer goggles,” or the curious effect of alcohol on one’s ability to see the true nature of that “cutie” at the other end of the bar.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Forest Whitaker, Tobey Maguire, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Halle Berry, Jaime Foxx, Ashton Kutcher, Natalie Portman and other celebs launched the first of a series of Public Service Announcements to encourage American youth to register to vote.
What’s Your Carfun Footprint? is a new marketing campaign from MINI USA and its agency Butler Shine Stern & Partners poses this very question and highlights that driver’s don’t have to sacrifice fun for fuel efficiency. MINI USA defines Carfun Footprint as: “A measurement of how much fun your car is versus how much impact it has on the environment.”
Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM were critically injured in a plane crash Friday night in Columbia, South Carolina. The plane’s four other passengers were killed.
Dance4Life is an international initiative set up to involve and empower young people all around the world to push back the spread of HIV and AIDS. Young people are the future and they have the power to halt the spread of HIV and AIDS. The motto for the Dance4Life is “when you want to get young people on the move, then you have to get them moving”.
Sharks have long stirred hostility and anxiety in the human soul. Countless books, films and sensationalized headlines have made the mere idea of “shark” synonymous with images of vicious attacks by indiscriminate killing machines. The truth is that sharks have much more to fear from us, says filmmaker Rob Stewart, who has spent years and hundreds of hours of videotape, trying to prove just that to a skeptical public.
The world’s population is predicted to increase from 6 to 8.5 billion over the next 20-30 years. By the year 2030 global demand for oil is projected to increase 37% over 2006 levels by 2030. There is an urgent national need to find new sources of energy.