Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com. To Make You Feel Nauseous, Architects Build An Upside-Down House. If The World Only Recognized Married Couples… Scampi's Pursuit of Happiness whole cover. Cinco de Mayo: How much do you really know about Mexico? - Post User Polls. Posted at 05:39 PM ET, 05/03/2012 May 03, 2012 09:39 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost Maru Montero performs for a group of mesmerized toddlers and parents at the library. Maru Montero Dance Company will perform at the Cinco de Mayo celebration on the Mall. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)Americans enjoy celebrating Mexico’s Cinco de Mayo. It allows them to wear sombreros, drink bad tequila and eat nachos with yellow cheese, which few Mexicans actually do Mariachi musicians and rodeo riders are pretty much the only Mexicans who don a sombrero these days.
Still, Cinco de Mayo is one of the fastest growing holidays in the United States. Most are a bit hazy on the details. It is not Mexico’s Fourth of July. Cinco de Mayo commemorates May 5, 1862, when Mexican forces led by the brave young general Ignacio Zaragoza won a decisive victory over superior numbers of French forces at the Battle of Puebla. William Booth is the Mexico Bureau Chief for the Post. More on Cinco de Mayo: Police Taser Use on Pregnant Woman Goes Before Supreme Court. What Would Improve Job Prospects for Young Workers? As Hannah Seligson reports in Sunday Business, joblessness among the young remains at crisis levels. In April, the unemployment rate for workers under age 25 was 16.4 percent, compared with 8.1 percent over all.
No one wants to see millions of young people sitting idle. So what can be done? Can policies and programs be created to channel them into full-time jobs? Two movements have sprouted to improve this generation’s chance to move out of the parental basement (or avoid it altogether): the Campaign for Young America and Fix Young America. The Campaign for Young America is in the midst of a 21-state bus tour that is set to conduct 100 roundtables with young people, Occupy Wall Street protesters, community leaders and entrepreneurs.
The effectiveness of these efforts remains to be seen. Features - May Is Skin Cancer Awareness Month: Protect Your Skin. While you enjoy the outdoors this summer, protect yourself from skin cancer by seeking shade, wearing sunglasses, a hat, and sun-protective clothing, and using sunscreen. When you’re having fun outdoors, it’s easy to forget how important it is to protect yourself from the sun. Unprotected skin can be damaged by the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays in as little as 15 minutes. Yet it can take up to 12 hours for skin to show the full effect of sun exposure. Even if it’s cool and cloudy, you still need protection. UV rays, not the temperature, do the damage. Clouds do not block UV rays; they filter them—and sometimes only slightly.
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This means that the first phase of the controversial scheme to defend Nato territory against ballistic missile attack will be operational. But Nato's plans have many critics. Some wonder if the system will work - and question whether there really is a missile threat to Nato territory at all. Others fear it will poison relations between Russia and the West, delivering little real strategic benefit. Nato has watched the spread of ballistic missile technology with growing unease. If there is a potential ballistic missile threat to Nato countries then it can be summed up in one word - Iran.
Continue reading the main story “Start Quote End QuoteProfessor Theodore PostolMissile defence expert More hardware Russia bristles. 2012 May 13 - Spiral Galaxy NGC 1672 from Hubble. Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 May 13 Spiral Galaxy NGC 1672 from Hubble Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: L. Jenkins (GSFC/U. Leicester) Explanation: Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers.
Google Maps Shows Where You'd Be If You Dug a Hole Through the Earth. Remember that favorite childhood question: if you could dig a hole so deep in your backyard that you would end up on the other side of the world, where would you be? Australia? China? One Google Maps-based website figures out where you would end up, if such a thing were possible. It turns out that if you're digging from most of the continental U.S., you'd end up swimming somewhere in the Indian Ocean. AntipodeMap.com allows you to see which location is exactly halfway around the world from where you are. SEE ALSO: 10 Places You’re Not Allowed to See on Google Maps The site defines two antipodal points as being connected by a straight line through the dead center of the Earth.
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This thing looks dark, y'all -- and not just because it actually looks dark. Did Marc Webb shoot 78 percent of "The Amazing Spider-Man" at night? Ponder that while listening to Peter Parker's opening voiceover about uneasy lives, powerful enemies and parental truth-finding, which Andrew Garfield recites with appropriately somber superhero tones. Such is the plot of "The Amazing Spider-Man": your friendly neighborhood Spider-man must find out the mystery behind why his father (Campbell Scott) abandoned him at a young age, while simultaneously combating the NYPD and the villainous Lizard (Rhys Ifans). Thank goodness, then, for Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), who's there to mend his many wounds. The new trailer offers tons more new footage than previous "Spider-Man" clips -- marvel at those set pieces!
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