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  • Spoof at Nuclear Power Plant

    Reported by ABC News' Nichole Smith:

    There's no telling what some senior executives will do to support the corporate culture - but a recently surfaced three-year-old video from a nuclear power plant shows executives going where perhaps no executives have gone before.

    In full Federation uniforms, several executives and line employees at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, or SONGS, in Pendleton, Calif., made a spoof "Star Trek" video called "SONGS TREK" right inside the nuclear station's training facility, reported ABC's San Diego affiliate KGTV.

    The video spoof was supported by those at the very top.

    San Onofre's then-chief nuclear officer Ross Ridenoure took the starring role as Capt. James T. Kirk, with San Onofre's current vice president and station manager Doug Bauder playing one of the crew members.

    And no "Star Trek" detail was spared as a rather imperious Dr. Spock appeared, sporting full make-up and an arched set of

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  • The instructions were plain and simple: Draw your "best day ever." Sabrina Brady did just that and it's landed her quite literally front and center in all of Google's glory.

    Brady, 17, was crowned the national champion of the site's fourth ever Doodle 4 Google contest on Wednesday, where students grades K-12 from all over the country submit their artwork to the competition, hoping to see their masterpiece intertwined with Google's iconic home-page logo.

    Brady, a senior at Wisconsin's Sparta High School, scored the top prize for her work titled "Coming Home." The illustration shows her racing into her dad's arms upon his return from an 18-month deployment in Iraq.

    PHOTOS: More Doodle 4 Google Images

    After reviewing thousands of entries submitted over a two-month period, Google selected finalists from every state in the country and asked users to vote for their favorite.

    "Her creative use of the Google letters to illustrate this heartfelt

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  • Teen's Prom Plea to Kate Upton Lands Him Top Model Date

    A Los Angeles teenager who was turned down by one of the world's hottest models after his YouTube "prom-posal" went viral, has managed to land a first-class backup date when the model that Sports Illustrated named Rookie of the Year agreed to attend his prom with him.

    Jake Davidson's March 16 video in which he asks white-hot model Kate Upton to attend his prom with him, reached more than 2.5 million viewers. In the clip, Davidson is seen lounging on a reclining patio chair, lathering up before a shave, practicing pushups and shampooing in the shower.

    "You're on the cover of Sports Illustrated. I read Sports Illustrated. … Kate, great moments are born from great opportunity. And that's what you have here today. A chance to make a nice guy's senior year the best ever."

    The high school senior's plea, showing no small amount of chutzpah when he coyly asked if he could call Upton Katie, made it to the 20-year-old cover model, who soon tweeted back to Davidson.

    "You can

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  • New Photo: Ewan McGregor Is Unrecognizable

    No, that's not a photo of Jennifer Aniston's fiance, Justin Theroux. It's "Big Fish" star Ewan McGregor.

    So, why the darker 'do and facial hair? It's likely for a role: McGregor recently signed on to star in the indie Western "Jane Got A Gun," opposite Natalie Portman. In the movie McGregor, 42, will play the villainous leader of an outlaw gang that is out to kill Natalie Portman's husband and take her land.

    The movie, which is currently in production, has gotten off to a rocky start: McGregor is assuming the part after Bradley Cooper dropped out of the project.

    "That was simply a scheduling thing," Cooper explained to the Huffington Post. "Everything worked out for the best because they got Ewan McGregor. If they could have gotten him at the outset, I would have never gotten offered the role, I'll tell you that."

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  • Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, had a mid-air scare today when their helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing.

    Charles and Camilla were 15 minutes into their flight from London to the Hay Literary Festival in Powys when a "technical fault" aboard the chopper forced the pilot to divert the flight to Denham Aerodrome in Buckinghamshire, according to the Press Association.

    "The pilot carried out a controlled emergency landing after diverting to the airport," a spokesman for the royal couple said.

    READ MORE: Prince Charles and Camilla Surprise Tube Passengers

    An investigation has been opened into what caused the mid-air problem aboard the helicopter, which had as many as five people, in addition to Charles and Camilla, aboard.

    Once safely on the ground, the prince and the duchess gamely boarded cars to continue on to Hay-on-Wye as scheduled.

    Despite arriving three hours late, Charles and Camilla were greeted by a crowd of several hundred

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  • Jennifer Aniston Strips Down for 'Millers'

    For years, Jennifer Aniston has been known for her fit physique and, now, she's showing it off in a big way.

    In her new movie, "We're the Millers," Aniston, 44, plays an exotic dancer alongside Jason Sudeikis, who stars as a drug dealer. In the below trailer, the former "Friends" star shows off her moves, and strips down to her skivvies.

    In an interview with InStyle UK last year, Aniston said that she stays in such great shape by working out five or six days each week, and avoiding junk food. But in spite of her killer body and great looks, the actress realizes that she's getting older.

    "You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are twenty-something, or the new crop of actresses and think, 'Aren't we kind of the same age?' You lose perspective. Or being offered the part of a woman with a 17-year-old child. It's like, 'I'm not old enough to have a 17-year-old,'" she said.

    (In this movie, which will be released this summer, she plays the mother of Emma Roberts, 22, and Will

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  • Borders Gift Card Holders Left With Squat

    A judge ruled on Wednesday that customers who hold $210.5 million in gift cards from the defunct Borders chain aren't eligible for refunds.

    About 17.7 million gift cards were outstanding when Borders began liquidating its stores in July 2011 after failing to attract offers for the company.

    Judge Andrew Carter for the U.S. District Court in Manhattan upheld a decision from a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in August 2012, which said the card holders did not prove they met the requirements for an exception to Borders' liquidation.

    The district court also decided the bankruptcy plan was too far along and that it would be unfair with respect to the remaining money and other general creditors.

    "They are saying, 'We didn't give you notice and it's too late now anyway even for the money that remains.' We just disagree with that concept," said Clinton Krislov, attorney for the gift card holders.

    Borders, which at one time had 642 stores, filed for Chapter 11

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  • Microsoft's Snarky Windows Tablet vs iPad TV Ad

    "Should we just play Chopsticks?"

    The new Microsoft TV commercial shows a Windows 8 Asus tablet pitted against an Apple iPad in what's reminiscent of a classic Apple ad, complete with vintage white background.

    Microsoft's tablet is shown demonstrating its Start Screen Live Tiles feature, multi-windowed Snap multitasking, and even Microsoft Office compatibility. All the while, Apple's voice assistant, Siri, is heard saying that she's sorry, but she just can't do any of those things:

    "I'm sorry, I don't update like that."

    "I'm sorry, I can only do one thing at a time… I guess PowerPoint isn't one of those things."

    After Siri seemingly gives up and opens the GarageBand piano, the ad ends with a rather rough rendition of Chopsticks (a play on Apple's iPad mini commercial) and a graphic showing the iPad priced at $699 and the Windows 8 Asus tablet at $449, both tablets in 64 GB versions.

    Apple

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  • Did Andrew Garfield, as Spiderman, Play Basketball With Kids?

    For the past few weeks, Andrew Garfield has been filming "Spider-Man 2? in New York City alongside his real-life girlfriend, Emma Stone-but even superheroes need to take a break.

    In the video below, a man in a Spider-Man costume, who appears to be Garfield, hits a local playground to play basketball with a few boys-but, like the comic book character, never reveals his true identity to onlookers.

    After saying goodbye to his new friends, the masked man takes off down the busy Manhattan street, followed by a woman who looks remarkably like Stone.

    So tell us in the comments below: Do you think that was Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone?

  • Over the past few years, Target executives have really been thinking outside the box, teaming up with high-end designers like Missoni, Neiman Marcus and Prabal Gurung. But when it comes to bargains, the popular discount chain's latest venture may have more people than ever saying "I do."

    Target is now offering affordable wedding wear, exclusively online, in their latest bulls-eye targeting nuptial necessities.

    "It's a huge industry," Jennie Ma, fashion and beauty editor at The Knot.com, told ABC News. "It generates about $4 billion a year. We've seen a lot of online retailers enter this space."

    PHOTOS: Prabal Gurung for Target Collection Unveiled

    Target is offering four styles of wedding gowns, 10 bridesmaids dresses and two flower girl frocks in sizes 2 to 28. And the nicest news for your wallet, with prices of $69.99 to $129.99.

    The average wedding dress costs around $1,200, and for that amount, brides-to-be could purchase six wedding and eight bridesmaids dresses at Target.

    Newly

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