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Muhammad Ali * USA
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Ali was a three-time heavyweight World Champion in boxing. Born Cassius Clay, he changed his name to Muhammad Ali after joining the Nation of Islam.

Date: 1967.
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Tom Cruise / 03 July 1962 / United States

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Tom Cruise
(1962-) United States
Born in Syracuse, New York, and raised in New Jersey, Tom Cruise was launched after his small but memorable role in 'Risky Business' (1983). Mega stardom followed with 'Rain Man' (1988), 'A Few Good Men' (1992) and 'Mission: Impossible 2' (2000). Cruise and Katie Holmes expect a child and plan to marry.
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Brad Pitt * Actor * USA

BIOGRAPHIES * FILM INDUSTRY
Brad Pitt
Actor Born: 18 December 1963
Birthplace: Shawnee, Oklahoma
Best known as: The hunky movie star who's with Angelina Jolie
Name at birth: William Bradley Pitt

Brad Pitt is one of the leading movie heartthrobs of the 1990s and 2000s and the Oscar-nominated star of the David Fincher film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2998).
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Pitt grew up in Missouri and studied journalism in college before dropping out to become an actor.
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He scored as the sexy scoundrel hitchhiker in the 1991 movie Thelma and Louise (with Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon), a small role that nonetheless catapulted him to leading man status. Despite the golden glow of a leading man, Pitt quickly became known as a movie star who didn't always have to be the star.
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Pitt co-starred with Tom Cruise in Anne Rice's Interview With A Vampire (1994), with Bruce Willis in Twelve Monkeys (1995) and with Harrison Ford in The Devil's Own (1997). As a leading man he appeared in Fincher's Se7en (1995, with Morgan Freeman), in Fincher's brutal urban psychodrama Fight Club (1999, with Edward Norton), and in Spy Game (2001, with Robert Redford).

He's done ensemble comedy in Ocean's Eleven (2001,

with George Clooney) and its sequels, and in the Coen brothers 2008 comedy Burn After Reading. And, of course, he's done big-budget star vehicles like Troy (2004, with Pitt as the weak-heeled Achilles) and Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005, opposite Angelina Jolie).

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His other films include A River Runs Through It (1992), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), The Mexican (2001, with Julia Roberts), Babel (2006) and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007, with Casey Affleck).

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Extra credit: Once engaged to actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Pitt married actress Jennifer Aniston in 2000. They divorced in 2005, amid rumors that Pitt had begun a romantic relationship with Angelina Jolie, his co-star from Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Those rumors were confirmed early in 2006, when Jolie legally changed her two adopted children's names to Zahara Jolie-Pitt and Maddox Jolie-Pitt. Pitt and Jolie then had a daughter together -- Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, who was born on 27 May 2006 in the country of Namibia -- adopted a four-year-old boy, Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt (b. 2003 in Vietnam), and then had twins named Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline on 12 July 2008.

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Pitt's children are, in order of age: Maddox (b. 2001 in Cambodia), Pax (b. 2003 in Vietnam), Zahara (b. 2005 in Ethiopia), Shiloh (b. 2006 in Namibia), and the twins Knox and Vivienne (b. 2008).

Steven Spielberg1946, Dec 18th * USA

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Steven Spielberg * USA

Steven Spielberg 1946–, American Film Director. * December 18, 1946 * Spielberg began his career as a television director, admired for his understanding portrayal of human character.

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His film Jaws (1975) was the first to earn more than $100 million, a record he surpassed first with E.T. (1983) and then with Jurassic Park (1993), which grossed more than $900 million.

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Spielberg's love of older movies was demonstrated with his serial-inspired trilogy of movies featuring Indiana Jones.

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Other films, many based on literary works, include The Color Purple (1985), Empire of the Sun (1987), and the widely acclaimed Holocaust drama Schindler's List (1993), for which he won an Academy Award.

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In 1994, Spielberg, former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, and recording industry mogul David Geffen formed Dreamworks SKG, a movie studio and entertainment company.
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The director later explored a slave revolt and trial in Amistad (1997) and won his second Oscar for the chillingly realistic war drama Saving Private Ryan (1998).

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He subsequently examined a ghastly future world of neurotic humans and sentient robots (the result of a collaboration with Stanley Kubrick) in A.I. (2001), for which he also wrote the screenplay, and portrayed another dark future in which crime is detected and stopped before it is committed in the allegory-thriller Minority Report (2002).

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He turned to a lighter, more comic vision in his tales of a young imposter and his implacable pursuer in Catch Me If You Can (2002) and of an Eastern European stranded in New York's Kennedy Airport in The Terminal (2004). By the early years of the 21st cent., Spielberg was mainstream Hollywood's most famous, influential, and successful director.

Milla Jovovich * Model / Actress / Singer / Ukraine

BIOGRAPHIES * BLOGSPOT
Milla Jovovich
Model / Actress / Singer
Born: 17 December 1975
Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine
Best known as: The redhead Leeloo in The Fifth Element

Milla Jovovich is a legitimate triple threat: she began modeling at age 11, appeared in the movie Two Moon Junction at age 13, and released her first musical album (The Divine Comedy) at age 18.
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Her role as Leeloo, the exotic beauty in Luc Besson's 1997 fantasy The Fifth Element, kicked her film career into high gear. Jovovich was born in the Ukraine; she and her parents emigrated to the U.S. when she was five. In 1997 she married Besson; the two were divorced in 1999.


Her other movies include the comedy Zoolander (2001, with Ben Stiller), Dummy (2003, with Jovovich as an aspiring punk rocker), and the video-game crossover Resident Evil (2002, with Michelle Rodriguez) and its sequels Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) and Resident Evil: Extinction (2007).
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Extra credit: According to her official site, her name is pronounced mee-luh yo-vo-vitch... Jovovich married Paul W.S. Anderson, her director on Resident Evil, on 22 August 2009. She and Anderson have a daughter, Ever Gabo J. Anderson, who was born on 3 November 2007.
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Jovovich wrote on her blog, "Ever is a Scottish boy's name... while her middle name Gabo -- pronounced 'Gabeau' -- is a mixture of my parents names! The first two letters are after my mom's first name, Galina and the last two letters are after my dad's first name Bogie!"
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Note that Anderson is not the Paul Anderson who directed Boogie Nights and Magnolia; that's Paul Thomas Anderson... Jovovich played Joan of Arc in the 1999 movie The Messenger.
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BIOGRAPHIES * BLOGSPOT
Milla Jovovich
Model / Actress / Singer
Born: 17 December 1975
Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine
Best known as: The redhead Leeloo in The Fifth Element

Milla Jovovich * Model / Actress / Singer / Ukraine

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FIRST stands for "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology." Its goal is "To create a world where science and technology are celebrated, and where young people dream of becoming science and technology heroes."A Maverick Founder

FIRST was founded by inventor Dean Kamen (Segway) in 1989.
Having dropped out of Worcester Polytechnic Institute before graduating, Mr. Kamen is a self-made man. He is well known for inventing a number of important medical devices, including the AutoSyringe, a mobile dialysis system for medical applications, the first insulin pump, and the Segway Personal Transporter.

Here are some significant excerpts from an article on Mr. Kamen in Wired magazine (Issue 8.09, Sept 2000):
As a teen, Kamen read Newton, heckled his science teacher, and built high-profile projects in New York. By graduation, he was earning $60,000 a year.What drives Kamen's imagination? Things he decided ought to exist, like a water purifier/power generator that zaps tainted H2O with a laser.The Ibot chair has a balance mode that raises up the front wheels, like a dog begging for a treat. "Technically," says Kamen, "it's magic."The "NCAA of smarts" (FIRST Robotics) is just as Kamen would have it: High school kids treat engineers like celebrities. And build robots that make the crowd roar.

FIRST Robotics
FIRST supports three programs for students in elementary school to high school: FIRST Lego League, FIRST Tech Challenge, and FIRST Robotics Competition.The most famous program supported by FIRST is the FIRST Robotics Competition. The participation in FIRST Robotics in 2009 competition is impressive:
1,680 robotics teams
42,000 high-school students
Teams from 48 states in the U.S., Brazil, Canada, Chile, Germany, Israel, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Turkey, and the U.K.
40 Regional events in the U.S., Canada, and Israel; seven District competitions and one State Championship in Michigan

FIRST Robotics Competition Championship at the FIRST Championship in Atlanta, GA, April 16-18, 2009
Robots are built in 6 weeks from a common kit of parts provided by FIRST, and weigh up to 120 lbs. (excluding battery and bumpers)

Those Who Participate in FIRST Robotics Are More Successful and More Involved
Recently, Brandeis University's Center for Youth and Communities conducted an independent, retrospective survey of past FIRST Robotics Competition participants and compared the results to a group of non-FIRST students with similar backgrounds and academic experiences, including in math and science. Highlights of the study's findings include, when compared with the comparison group, FIRST students are:
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More than 3 times as likely to major specifically in engineering.
Roughly 10 times as likely to have had an apprenticeship, internship, or co-op job in their freshman year of college.
Significantly more likely to expect to achieve a post graduate degree.
More than twice as likely to expect to pursue a career in science and technology.
Nearly 4 times as likely to expect to pursue a career specifically in engineering.
More than twice as likely to volunteer in their communities.