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Boston Marathon bombing victim update

In an iconic and affecting photo taken in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing in April, cowboy hat-wearing Carlos Arredondo rushes to push Jeff Bauman out of harm’s way in a wheelchair. While the photo showed the horrors of a city rocked by violence, it also captured the heroism and resilience that emerged from the tragedy.

Bauman lost his legs in the blast but managed to maintain an indomitable spirit. Since the bombing, he has continued his recovery and is learning to walk on new prosthetic legs. In May, he and Arredondo appeared at a Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park, where Bauman threw the ceremonial first pitch.

On Wednesday, Bauman and Arredondo sat down with NBC’s Brian Williams to talk about the bond they have formed in the wake of an unspeakable tragedy. In a segment that ran on the "Today Show," the two men talked about the bombing, their newfound connection, and Bauman’s remarkably fast recovery.

“I’m stronger,” Bauman told Williams. “Way stronger. I could lift my whole body weight with these [arms], probably about 100 times if I wanted to.”

Bauman likely would not have survived the bombing if Arredondo, a Costa Rican peace activist, hadn’t come to his rescue. In the famous photo, Arredondo can be seen trying to stem the massive blood loss from Bauman’s right thigh as a first responder and volunteers wheel him to safety.

“He was the one that picked me off the ground,” said Bauman. “He said his shoulder was hurting, but he grabbed me with one hand in the chair.”

Said Arredondo, “I saw the quantity of blood on the floor, and I knew Jeff was a person who needed to go soon, very quick to the emergency room, because he lost so much blood at the time.”

Still recovering at the time of the interview, Bauman remained optimistic.

“I really want to do something great,” he told Williams. “I want to be out there. I want to just help people. That’s what I want to do.”

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Lil Wayne quitting music for skateboarding

These days you'll be hard-pressed to find Lil Wayne without a skateboard, but could the YMCMB rap champ be hanging up the mic in exchange for the deck? For the time being, yes.

"It's kinda putting rap on the back burner, that's all. Rap's taking a backseat to skating, that's all," Weezy told DJ Drama when he phoned into his radio show on Atlanta's Hot 107.9 on Wednesday.

"I kinda feel like I deserve that, I feel like the fans deserve a little No Wayne. I've been everywhere, man. I've been out on everybody's song, I'm still on everybody's song," Tunechi continued. "My artists are doing awesome; I believe the fans deserve some peace from me, so I'll be on my skateboard in the meantime."

Wayne did confirm that his Dedication 4 mixtape with Drama would be dropping in the middle of August, but he didn't elaborate on any of his other expected musical projects. At the top of June, Weezy Wi dropped "My Homies Still," the first single off of I Am Not a Human Being II, which is said to be dropping later this year, though no release date has been set.

Since he was a teen, Weezy has released music at a dizzying pace, whether solo albums, LPs with his former group the Hot Boys or his plethora of mixtapes, so can you really blame him? "Yeah, it does get pretty boring when it comes to the rapping and that kinda stuff. I've done so much of it," he said. "I've been doin' it since I was 8. I'm about to be 30 in September and I'm still rappin'. So I kinda feel like I'm gettin' old."

Skating provides a new challenge for the multiplatinum rap star. Tunechi has become so enamored with his board that he even has skating ramps in the microphone booth where he records. "What happened was I picked up the skateboard and it started being a hobby and what happened is it's a lifestyle," he said. "You have to be fully committed because it's super-scary, and in order to be fully committed, you have to live that lifestyle."

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Sacha Baron Cohen does a rare interview as himself

Sacha Baron Cohen sat down for an interview with "The Howard Stern Show" earlier today, giving an exceptionally rare interview as himself.

"I've never really done any interviews as myself," says Cohen in a video snippet for those without SiriusXM. "This is like the third time in my life I’ve done an interview out of character."

Cohen's appearance in the video clip is startling for its normalcy. The comedian wears a brown T-shirt and a black leather jacket, along with a baseball cap. In contrast to his outrageous characters Ali G, Borat, Bruno and General Aladeen, Cohen is clean-cut and speaks in his native British accent. He sits back in his chair, holding a cup of coffee.

"I'm a huge fan and I've been following your career for 20 years," said Cohen, explaining why he chose Stern's show for the rare interview. "What you were doing inspired me very early on because I thought, 'Alright, this is a guy who's got balls.' The fact that you didn't mind breaking the law or upsetting people -- I followed that role."

Stern pressed the actor on why he is so hesitant to appear in public as himself.
"To me, you're such a more fascinating guy," said Stern. "To interview a character ... I mean, what am I going to ask 'The Dictator?' He's not a real guy. Now that you're accomplished, people do want to speak to the real you. Though I would prefer that you only speak to me as you."

Cohen admitted that it was fun to speak in his own voice.
"I enjoyed it. I never do it," Cohen said, wrapping up the interview. "Maybe that'll be it. It will be an exclusive with 'The Howard Stern Show.'"

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51-year-old mother nicknamed "Grambo" graduates from Army boot camp

Last week, Army Sgt. Sandra Coast graduated from Basic Combat Training at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, notching some of the highest physical fitness scores in her company. What makes this particularly remarkable: At age 51, Coast is 222 percent older than the average newly minted Army grunt. Nicknamed "Grambo," Coast enlisted because she has a special place in her heart for troops — her son is Marine Corps Pfc. Jeff Coast — and a strong desire to serve. Still, "everybody in the world thinks I am a total nutcase," she tells the Armed Forces Press Service. A look at Coast's inspirational story:

Does the Army usually take 51-year-old women?
No. The Army let Coast join the Reserves because she served in the Navy from 1982 to 1993. She tried to enlist at the same time her son joined the Marines, but "before the recruiters would even talk to me, I had to lose 30 pounds," Coast says. "I went from sitting at home every night eating ice cream to exercising and watching what I ate." A paralegal specialist, Coast hoped to work with active-duty troops, but "they are not taking people as old as me for active duty," she says. Instead, she was assigned to an Army Reserve "virtual unit." That means "everything I do will be by the Internet and phone," Coast explains.

But she still had to complete boot camp?
Much to her surprise, yes. "I wasn't quite expecting to be running around with an M16 and all of this gear," Coast said. "We carried M16s during Navy boot camp, but we never shot them. Here we are shooting several times a week," with heavy gear on. "Everything about basic training is pretty tough," she says, "but living with more than 30 teenage females is one of the hardest things."

How did other grunts react to "Grambo"?
"We don't treat her any different, and we don't see the privates treat her any different," says Coast's first sergeant. Well, some of the men are particularly nice, Coast qualifies. "They will do little things that they probably aren't supposed to do, like give me their seat on the bus and hold the doors for me." Other situations are tougher. During hand-to-hand combat training, "we had to slap each other in the face," Coast recalls. "The poor guy that was up against me said, 'I cannot do this. I cannot slap her.' I told him I would pay for his counseling when we were done. I was slapping him — he finally slapped me."

What does her son think?
"She is hardcore," he says. "She is doing what most people her age would consider crazy," and "I hope when I get older, I am still active and do all kinds of cool stuff."

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High school paying kids to attend

Dohn Community High School, a charter school in Cincinnati, Ohio, is throwing money at its sizable truancy problem. Starting this week, seniors who have perfect attendance, show up on time, participate in class, and stay out of trouble will be rewarded each week with a $25 Visa gift card; underclassmen will get $10 for each perfect week, and every time a student earns a card, they'll also get $5 deposited in an account payable upon graduation. Here, a look at Dohn's controversial, "last-ditch" effort to keep kids in school:

Why is Dohn paying kids to attend class?
The high school serves students at high risk of dropping out — with 170 mostly low-income, minority students, Dohn has an attendance rate of 84 percent, and only 14 percent of students graduated last year. "People will say you're rewarding kids for something they should already be doing anyway," Dohn Principal Ramone Davenport tells The Cincinnati Enquirer. "But they're not doing it. We've tried everything else." Earlier incentives included pizza and uniform-free days, but frequently absent students kept requesting cash, Davenport tells CBS Local 12 News. "I thought about it and I said lets go out to find the resources to do that."

Who's paying for this?
Private donations and federal Workforce Investment Act dollars managed by Easter Seals are financing the $40,000-a-year program. If the rewards system is successful, Easter Seals says it already has a grant to extend the program through next year.

Has this been tried before?
Yes. Individual schools and even whole school districts have tried similar rewards-based programs for years. The incentives vary. Some Albuquerque and Fort Worth students get a shot at a new car; kids at a Lowell, Mass., high schools earn a $1,200 laptop for good attendance, or for getting into college or the military; and various schools around the country offer cash for attendance or good grades. Britain has paid some lower-income students monthly stipends for attendance and performance for more than a decade.

Does it work?
Sometimes. Harvard economist Roland Fryer Jr., who's conducted incentives programs at several large, urban school districts since 2007, says the programs tend to be successful if they reward behaviors like attendance, but not good grades. In a 2005 look at several programs, ABC's Good Morning America found that some programs — like the Lowell laptop giveaway — did really well, while others had more modest results.

So... is paying students to attend school a good idea?
If the programs are well-designed, yes, says Hedy Chang at the Attendance Works initiative. "Research and common sense tell us that school attendance is critically important to student achievement," and paying students "just to show up" can be part of the solution. Are you kidding? says Peter Spevak at the Center for Applied Motivation. Rewarding students for something they're "supposed to do anyway" actually "undermines internal motivation," which is bad for the student and bad for society. Look, I'd love kids to attend class "for the intrinsic value," says Harlem Children's Zone founder Geoffrey Canada, whose Promise Academy high schools pay students up to $120 a month for showing up and doing well. "And until then, I'd love them to do it for money. I just want them to do it."

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Tom Green is back

Jason Segel interview with Conan O'Brien

Most obnoxious child ever

The comments on the video are hilarious:
"This child deserves a high face. In the face. With a chair"



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Grant Mower is a real prodigy fashion designer:

Michele Bachmann on Jay Leno

The Minnesota congresswoman and Republican presidential candidate came on the "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" Friday night to discuss her views. Even though she is more tolerable than usual, she is still a repulsive person whose poses misinformation as "facts."

Talking about her win in Iowa and the HPV vaccine.


Talking about the debt ceiling debacle and gay marriage.

Pauly D on Conan 9-13-11

The Jersey Shore star talks about celebrity endoresements, Halloween costumes, and tries to get Roseanne Barr to do the "Jersey Turnpike"!