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Zendaya and Scott Peeley’s Newfound Freedom

Zendaya and Scott Peeley’s Newfound Freedom

LOSER: 60 Minutes: Scott Pelley arguably deserved to be canned for that rant against his new 60 Minutes boss Nick Bilton. It doesn’t matter if your job is on Wall Street or at a Wendy’s. Try telling your manager at a staff meeting they have “slender qualifications” and “will never be welcomed here” and the person who hired them is “murdering” the company and see how well that goes for you. Reportedly earning $5 million per year, Pelley had f-you money and that’s essentially what he told the new boss. But also: 60 Minutes has become a total mess, and that’s squarely on Paramount chief David Ellison and CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss. Leaks, drama, quitting, firings, pulling a topical segment about the Trump administration at the last minute, allegations of pressure to insert factual errors or political bias, and, now, bringing on print veteran and documentarian Bilton — a fine journalist, but somebody Ellison and Weiss had to know would spark more internal uproar as he lacks TV experience. 60 Minutes isn’t …

Newfound fossil is not a teen T. rex but a whole new species

Newfound fossil is not a teen T. rex but a whole new species

asteroid: A rocky object in orbit around the sun. Most asteroids orbit in a region that falls between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Astronomers refer to this region as the asteroid belt. basic research: Research performed to gain a general understanding of how things work, and not with any particular application in mind. This type of work is contrasted with applied research, which is work done to accomplish a particular purpose — such as to cure disease, make a building stronger or make a fuel burn cleaner. coexist: To exist at the same time as or along with. cranial nerves: Pairs of nerves in mammals and dinosaurs that connect the brain directly to muscles and organs of the head and torso. Cretaceous Period: The latter age of dinosaurs, it spanned from 145 million to 66 million years ago, it was a time when the whole planet had a relatively mild climate, with forests growing near both the North and South Poles. It marked the emergence of flowering plants and massive volcanic eruptions, which triggered big …