Coldplay
British rockers stymied the leak of their fourth studio album, Viva La Vida, last June by immediately streaming it for free on MySpace. The album went on to become the best-selling album of 2008, moving 7 million copies and earning the band a Grammy for B...

Jennifer Aniston
Five years after Friends went off the air, fans still love to see Aniston in romantic comedies. This year’s Marley & Me and He’s Just Not That Into You helped the actress earn $25 million. Keeping her name in print: an on-again, off-again romanc...

Rabbit
Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, found in several parts of the world. There are seven different genera in the family classified as rabbits, including the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), Cottontail rabbit ...

Football
The game of football is a contact sport. The whole field contains 22 players ( including offense and defense.) At the beginning of the game there is a kickoff. There are 120 yards from the end of the endzone to the other end. A touchdown is worth 6 points...

America’s Best Colleges
The college, of course, is the U.S Military Academy, or West Point, and it tops our second-annual ranking of America’s Best Colleges, compiled by Forbes and the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. In this report, the CCAP ranks 600 und...

Portland Fashion Week
Dubbed by its organizers as the world’s only “comprehensively eco-sustainable” fashion week, Portland Fashion Week 2009 stands out among the slew of runway events for its use of LED lighting, all-natural beauty products, organic food and wine, and the piè...

Netbook
The machines are as different as any two Netbooks can be. The Acer runs Windows XP, the Asus runs Linux. The Asus has an SSD, the Acer a traditional hard disk. The Asus supports Wi-Fi N, the Acer doesn’t. The smaller Acer machine has a weaker battery...

Monte Burke
Dario Franchitti, 36, is grinning like a school kid, as a banana-yellow toy airplane soars over a basketball court at the Chelsea Piers sports complex in Manhattan. The reigning champion of the IndyCar Series is in New York to promote his tour’s new ...

Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstr...

Basic Techniques of Oil Painting
Once oil painting basics have been comprehended, it won’t be long before one is heading the road to create one’s own masterpiece. There are different oil painting techniques for beginners without which one cannot paint to one’s potential. T...