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Today: Fox News is reportedly close to extending the contracts of Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, Mel Gibson's latest recorded diatribe is slightly less unsettling and nauseating than earlier ones, and James Cameron has a new space venture.
Playing off of James Cameron's recent underwater adventure today is webcomic xkcd, which offers its nerdy followers a to-scale look at the oceans' depths.
We were so much older then. We're younger than that now.
Fresh from his trip to the bottom of the ocean, James Cameron gets The New York Times Magazine Q&A treatment this week, and when reaching for metaphors he, unsurprisingly, sounds pretty nautical.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Titanic director James Cameron successfully completed a trip to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, setting a world record for the deepest ocean dive by a single person.
What would you do if you had a few hundred million dollars to burn? Whatever you did, you'd certainly never stash it all in a savings account, right?
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