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Remember The Green Goblin On New Year's Eve? Scary!

How the Green Goblin captured Anderson Cooper
New Year's Eve 2012

Duration: 01:58 min.

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Added: Aug 31, 2012

Description: See how Anderson created the Times Square NYC stunt with the cast and crew from "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" in this video. Plus, hear from the actor who plays Spider-Man, Matthew James Thomas, on what it was like to share the stage with Anderson for an afternoon.

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ee9dTXFDDc

Mini Ander Bio

Anderson Cooper

Duration: 02:52 min.

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Added: Aug 30, 2012

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Once In A Blue Moon...

...And that blue moon is tonite. The second full moon in any month happens to happen this month.

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Posted at 10:12 AM ET, 08/31/2012 TheWashingtonPost

Blue moon: one small mistake, giant folklore for the sky

By Blaine Friedlander

If you call old friends on your smart phone only once in a blue moon, start dialing: Today is your day.

For an event that happens about once every 2.7 years, enjoy the full moon – because it’s a Blue Moon… on a Friday… just in time for happy hour.

Modern folklore defines a blue moon as the second full moon in a given month. Washington’s last full moon fell officially on Aug. 1 at 11:27 p.m. (Aug. 2, 3:27 a.m., Universal Time.)

Today’s full moon officially was at 9:58 a.m. here. Remain seated at your desks and don’t bother looking right now, because you can’t see it until this evening.

There are several news reports telling people to look for the moon in the morning. If you believe those reports, you’ll be looking a long time. The full moon is essentially opposite from the sun right now – from our earthly perspective. So while the sun is up today, the full moon is not visible.

Tonight’s moon rises in the eastern heavens at 7:25 p.m., moments before sunset in the western sky at 7:39 p.m.

The next blue moon occurs on July 31, 2015. We get two blue moons in 2018 when they fall within January and March. (Always deprived of days, February 2018 gets no respect and no full moon.)

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My blue moon every night of the year!

Sanjay On 60 Minutes

Preview: Teacher to the World

August 30, 2012 -- 8:00 AM

The world's most popular teacher doesn't show his face in online tutorials so students focus on the work, says Khan Academy's Sal Khan. Watch "60 Minutes" on Sunday, Sept. 2 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.


Teacher To The World - On his educational website, "Khan Academy," he teaches millions of students across the world each month. Sal Khan's teaching method has become so effective that he may be the future of American education. Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Sal Khan

Dance, Anderson, Dance!

Beyoncé Wants Anderson Cooper To Dance During The Premiere Of Anderson Live

8/31/2012 -- 12:32 AM ET


Anderson Cooper is returning to daytime television for the second season of Anderson Live (the first season was simply called Anderson) on September 10 and he's bringing Beyoncé with him!

The singer joins the journalist-turned-talk show host in the promo (above) for the season premiere and it sounds like she wants him to let out his inner Ellen DeGeneres by doing a little dancing.

He seems hesitant…but if anyone can get him to shake that behind, it's definitely THIS Bootylicious guest.

Hunter By Any Other Name...

Uproar over boy's sign language name

KHAS | Added on August 30, 2012
A toddler's parents say they were asked to change their son's sign language name, but the school says it never did that.

Get Fit By 40, Or...

...Or you'll have to meet Mark Macdonald when you get to be 41... And that's a tough choice to make!

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Why you really should get 'Fit By 40'

This story started on CNN iReport

By Jacque Wilson, CNN
updated 8:57 AM EDT, Fri August 31, 2012


(CNN) -- Thirty was not a good year for Michelle Jackson. A few weeks before her birthday, she lost her job. Then her husband left her -- with a 1½-year-old at home.

So it's understandable that as her 40th birthday approached, the Milwaukee resident was nervous.

Sure, she had a new job that she loved and her husband had returned. But the medical data analyst was more than 150 pounds overweight, despite working every day with experts who stressed the importance of staying healthy.

Around her 38th birthday, Jackson came across an article about weight loss. It discussed aging and how middle-aged women have to work out three times a week just to maintain their weight.

After 40, Jackson remembers reading in horror, metabolism slows and the pounds don't come off as easily.

Unfortunately, says CNN's diet and fitness expert Dr. Melina Jampolis, that's not a myth.

Jampolis says she sees evidence of it all the time in her practice -- women over 40 who are attending spin class every day and restricting calories, frustrated because they can't drop five pounds.



There's nothing magic about the age of 40, Jampolis says. But in the premenopausal years, a woman's sex hormones start to change. The body produces less healthy estrogen, and more estrone -- a type of estrogen that comes from your body's fat tissue.

More estrone leads to insulin resistance and a loss of muscle mass. And with their hormones going crazy, women start to crave carbohydrates and sweets.

"It's like PMS on steroids," Jampolis says. "The best thing to do is a preventative attack in your 30s. It's going to be much, much harder to lose the weight in your 40s."

Jackson decided to take control of her upcoming milestone.

"At the time I was 38. (I thought), 'I'm going to turn 40 regardless. Why don't I accomplish something in two years instead of being in the same place?'"

She launched her mission: "Fit By 40." But starting a new lifestyle was easier said than done.

"I'm regarded as a pretty great home cook and take a lot of pride in that," Jackson wrote in her iReport submission. "I've also never been any good (with) sports -- physical sport typically conjured feelings of embarrassment. It was daunting to consider eating differently and exercising regularly because I was contemplating something larger: losing the compliments on my cooking and facing embarrassment at the gym."

Always data-obsessed, Jackson started using SparkPeople.com to plot her weight along a goal line. She cut her calories to 1,600 a day and started logging 30 to 45 minutes at the gym three times a week.

Jampolis says weight training needs to be a priority for women before and after 40. More muscle leads to a higher calorie-burn -- essential when your metabolism decides to limp along.

Also important is eating a healthy diet, Jampolis says. Vegetables, fruits and grains should be spaced out between several servings of lean protein.

"Women are super busy in their 30s; they're usually raising kids or kicking butts in their career," she says. "They really need to put (the focus) back on themselves to make a smooth transition to their 40s."

On the new plan, Jackson's weight dropped at a steady rate. Since March 2011, she's lost more than 100 pounds. Along the way, she realized she had always known how to get healthy. The problem wasn't a lack of information. The problem was motivation. "If you had asked me when I was at my heaviest how being heavy had impacted me, I would have said, 'not at all,'" Jackson says. "I was comfortable in my own skin." She didn't consider herself unhealthy at 330 pounds. Yet after losing weight, she stopped snoring, went off her asthma medication, felt less pain in her knee while walking and threw out the acid reflux medication she used to take before bed.

"Michelle is a driven, determined and strong-willed force," her friend and co-worker Krissy Fischer says. "When she committed to weight loss, there was no doubt she would succeed. Michelle was never shy, but she has become even more confident, outgoing and self-assured as she has lost weight."

Jackson won't reach her goal weight of 164 pounds -- a healthy body mass index for her 5-foot-8 frame -- by her birthday in February. She could add more intense workouts or drop her calorie intake, but she wants to maintain a lifestyle she can keep up for the rest of her life.

As her big birthday approaches, she isn't nervous anymore. "I'm excited for it," she says. "I've taken 40 into my hands."

Share your weight loss story on iReport

RNC Photos

August 31st, 2012
01:46 AM ET



Behind-the-scenes at the RNC

Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer, and many others from CNN's Political team of anchors, analysts, and strategists hosted a week of live coverage on CNN from the Republican National Convention.

Shortly before the RNC was set to start, Tropical Storm Isaac's uncertain path targeted Tampa and eventually turned west aiming toward the Louisiana/Mississippi part of the Gulf Coast, charting along a path similar to Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall close to the same date 7 years earlier. Anderson left Tampa en-route to New Orleans on Monday to report the latest on the Hurricane.

After Isaac made landfall, and slowly lessened in power, Anderson returned to Tampa on the night Mitt Romney accepted the Republican Party nomination for president.

Here are some behind-the-scenes photos from the Convention.

Yes, We Deserve Better, And You, Romney, You Ain't It!

August 31st, 2012
01:30 AM ET



.. and CNN's political team report.

Romney accepts the Republican nomination for president

Immediate reactions to Mitt Romney's RNC speech and the overall Republican convention from CNN's political team.

Dumb, Bad & Ugly

August 31st, 2012
01:15 AM ET



.. and CNN's analysts report.

Reaction to Clint Eastwood's RNC speech

Anderson Cooper and CNN's analysts and strategists talk about Clint Eastwood's memorable speech at the RNC.

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The Dumb, The Bad, And The Ugly.
Ta, Da, Da, Da, Da... Waaa, Waaa, Waa.

Romney: A Private Man In A Public World

August 30th, 2012
10:14 PM ET



.. and CNN's panel of analysts report.

RNC: What does Romney need to do tonight?

CNN's panel of analysts and strategists talk about what they think Mitt Romney needs to do to win over the RNC crowd.

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So Handsome Yet So Stupid

Dumb And Dumber