Don't call Zooey Deschanel a "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" anymore. The New Girl alum explained how she feels about being associated with the pop culture term, first coined in 2007 by AV Club writer Nathan Rabin, which typically describes a quirky, somewhat nerdy and attractive female character who gives a male protagonist a deeper meaning to his life. "I don't feel it's accurate," Deschanel told the Guardian in an interview published July 21. "I'm not a girl. I'm a woman.

SpaceIndia limbers up for space race as prime minister asks for the moonShuttle astronaut inspires New Delhi to challenge China's lofty ambitionsIt is more than thirty years since the American astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt wandered around the surface of the moon, scooped up several large chunks of rock and flew home. Since their last epic Apollo mission in December 1972, no one has been back. But if India's prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has his way, the next astronaut to leave footprints on the moon's ghostly cratered surface could well be Indian.

Natalie Ann Jamieson plays Amy Wyatt in Emmerdale. Picture: Instagram/ITV By Heart @thisisheart Who plays Amy Wyatt in Emmerdale and what do we know about Natalie Ann Jamieson? Listen to this article Loading audio... Since making her debut on Emmerdale back in 2010, Amy Wyatt has been part of some huge storylines. After being fostered by Val and Eric Pollard as a teenager, she gave birth at the age seventeen to son Kyle before she gave him up for adoption.

Mr. Grey went to great lengths to try and impress girls as a teen. His words. Jamie Dornan is the king of suave as he continuously seduces his onscreen lover Dakota Johnson in the hit Fifty Shades films but his adolescent sex life was as awkward as most people's. Possibly even more. The 35-year-old actor recently told an embarrassing story that brings to mind an R-rated teen comedy romp more than an erotic romance. Speaking on the Graham Norton Show on Friday, while sitting with fellow celebs Helen Mirren and Liam Neeson, Dornan said that he was a "

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Ozone layerObituaryMario Molina obituaryMexican scientist who helped discover dangers posed by CFCs to the ozone layer, leading to an international ban on their use Unknown to humanity, in the later decades of the last century an environmental crisis was slowly unfolding in the upper atmosphere. The existence of the ozone layer was proved by chemists in the early 20th century, but as a scientific curiosity rather than a beneficial barrier. A thin layer between the troposphere, in which we live, and the stratosphere, the ozone layer filters out about 99% of harmful ultraviolet light from the sun before it hits the Earth.

Richard Adams's blogBarack Obama This article is more than 13 years oldObama requires 12 stitches to his lip after bruising basketball injuryThis article is more than 13 years oldA smack in the face from an opponent's elbow earns Barack Obama a split lip and a dozen stitches from playing basketballThree weeks after being battered at the ballot box, Barack Obama today received an unwelcome Thanksgiving present on the basketball court in the form of an elbow in the face.

Phillip Schofield's brother sentenced to 12-years in prison. Picture: Instagram/Phillip Schofield By Alice Dear @According2Al Timothy Schofield was sentenced to 12 years in prison today after being found guilty of 11 sexual offences. Phillip Schofield's brother, Timothy Schofield, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. The former civilian Avon and Somerset Police worker from Bath was sentenced today at Bristol Crown Court where the judge told him: "

“The Rock Hall isn’t perfect, but it’s the best thing of its kind we’ve got.” (L-R: Micky Dolenz, Yoko Ono, and Bernard Sumner.) This year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction class will be the first one crafted without Jann Wenner lurking from around the corner, after he was removed from the board of directors last September following an egregious interview to promote his book about so-called “masters” of the genre.

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