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FILE - This June 12, 2012 file photo shows actor Alec Baldwin and his fiancee Hilaria Thomas at The Friars Club and Friars Foundation Honor of Tom Cruise at The Waldorf-Astoria in New York. A New York City news photographer says he was punched by Alec Baldwin outside a marriage license bureau in Manhattan. The Daily News reports that Marcus Santos was snapping images of the "30 Rock" star with his fianc?e Hilaria Thomas Tuesday, June 19. Santos told the paper that Baldwin grabbed a second news photographer, then started shoving Santos and hit him in the chin. He then walked away. Photos on the newspaper's website appear to show Baldwin shoving the photographer. No police report has been filed. A call to the newspaper's public relations office wasn't returned. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file)
FILE - This June 12, 2012 file photo shows actor Alec Baldwin and his fiancee Hilaria Thomas at The Friars Club and Friars Foundation Honor of Tom Cruise at The Waldorf-Astoria in New York. A New York City news photographer says he was punched by Alec Baldwin outside a marriage license bureau in Manhattan. The Daily News reports that Marcus Santos was snapping images of the "30 Rock" star with his fianc?e Hilaria Thomas Tuesday, June 19. Santos told the paper that Baldwin grabbed a second news photographer, then started shoving Santos and hit him in the chin. He then walked away. Photos on the newspaper's website appear to show Baldwin shoving the photographer. No police report has been filed. A call to the newspaper's public relations office wasn't returned. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file)
FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2012 file photo, host Alec Baldwin speaks during the inaugural NFL Honors show in Indianapolis. A New York City news photographer says he was punched by Alec Baldwin outside a marriage license bureau in Manhattan. The Daily News reports that Marcus Santos was snapping images of the "30 Rock" star with his fianc?e Hilaria Thomas Tuesday, June 19. Santos told the paper that Baldwin grabbed a second news photographer, then started shoving Santos and hit him in the chin. He then walked away. Photos on the newspaper's website appear to show Baldwin shoving the photographer. No police report has been filed. A call to the newspaper's public relations office wasn't returned. (AP Photo/Marcio Sanchez, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? A New York City newspaper photographer has accused groom-to-be Alec Baldwin of assaulting him outside a marriage license bureau.
But the "30 Rock" star says he was only protecting himself.
The NYPD confirmed that Daily News photographer Marcus Santos had filed a complaint against Baldwin. The department says Santos claims he was punched while snapping photos of Baldwin and his fiancee, Hilaria Thomas.
A statement on Tuesday from Baldwin's publicist accused the photographer of being the aggressor. It says the actor defended himself after the photographer assaulted him with a camera, and that no punches were thrown.
Photos on the newspaper's website (http://nydn.us/M3XinW) appear to show Baldwin shoving the photographer.
An NYPD spokeswoman says no charges have been filed and that police are investigating.
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The elite U.S. three-day eventing equine squad landed in London on Monday on a FedEx flight, having taken the red eye from Newark, N.J. They're not the first competitors to arrive as the countdown to the games clicks to less than 40 days away, but they are among the most pampered.
"They are all special," said Tim Dutta, who owns the international horse transport company that organized the trip. "We are working on everybody's dream."
Bringing these elite athletes across the Atlantic Ocean is a logistical feat ? one small example of the many people and efforts under way behind the scenes to make the games go off without a hitch. This is particularly true for horses ? the only animals that take part in the games, which start July 27 and end Aug. 12.
Let's just start by saying that these 10 are not just any old group of horses. These animals have passports that would be the envy of any human wishing to travel the world. That said, they get used to traveling, and most of the time, they don't ask for much ? not even an in-flight meal.
But grooms traveling with Twizzel, Mighty Nice, Arthur and the other seven horses that made the journey would maybe give them a bit of hay.
Horses like these can move in their boxes quite a bit, unlike human sardines on regular flights. But in case any of them gets bothered by the noise, the grooms might stuff some cotton in their ears, says Dr. Brendan Furlong, the veterinarian for the American eventing team.
Carrots are always a good way to calm any horse who gets nervous ? or even a horse tranquilizer in the rare case a prized animal gets really edgy. The goal is to get them to London stress-free.
As for the grooms, the vet and the other humans that cater to these pampered prancers, well, they aren't exactly going first class. Furlong says he'll usually ask the pilots to keep the plane kind of cool, so sometimes this crowd finds itself wrapped in blankets to keep warm. There's no in-flight movie, so jokes about whether they choose between "Seabiscuit" or "War Horse" don't really cut it.
"It's not a job for the faint of heart," Furlong said. "You need to have someone who is a very confident flier and who can intervene quickly to calm a stressed horse."
After all, 1,200 pounds of stressed horse can be an intimidating prospect.
Furlong says the crews are usually very accommodating ? and always want to come back even briefly to see their precious cargo.
But even these horses didn't escape Britain's strict rules on quarantine. Furlong arranged to have a farm near Newark International Airport set up as a special
quarantine area to comply with the U.K.'s rules ? though admittedly the cherished 10 only needed five hours of intense scrutiny to meet the criteria. Nothing but the best for this crowd. Really.
But do they know ? do the horses know that it's the Olympics? That it's a special event that happens only every four years?
Dutta swears they do.
"They're athletes," Dutta said of horses that jump big big fences and run oh so fast. "They love what they do."
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It is common for us to focus on the competitive aspects of the well-worn phrase ?survival of the fittest.? As it turns out, however, we sell nature short when we do so. Fitness is not simply a cutthroat matter of outperforming others to survive and reproduce?thus passing along those successful genes. As you will learn in this issue's cover story, ?Why We Help,? by Martin A. Nowak, cooperation among members of groups, from single-celled amoebas to the complex assemblages found in mammals, has helped shape the evolution of all of life on earth in profound ways. Individuals may engage in various flavors of cooperation, from discharging a beneficial duty for kin to performing selfless actions for the greater good. It may (or may not) surprise you to learn that people earn a unique place among species as the most mutually helpful of all. Nowak calls the phenomenon the ?snuggle for survival.? For more, turn to page 34.
Surely science, which can involve teams of researchers from around the globe working on projects, is one of humankind's great collaborative endeavors. Yet society also enjoys shining a spotlight on those individuals whose contributions have been most worthy of our group's admiration. In our special section ?Nobel Pursuits,? timed for the annual gathering in which laureates and young scientists (cooperatively) share insights at Lindau near Germany's Lake Constance, we offer a selection of excerpts from the many feature articles by Nobel Prize?winning authors who have appeared over the years in the pages of Scientific American. Beginning on page 62, associate editors John Matson and Ferris Jabr frame the section with an overview of the key questions in physics today in honor of the topic theme chosen for the 62nd annual Lindau meeting.
Last, I wanted to mention a recent travel highlight. I was a panel moderator at Neuromagic 2012, a conference that brought together neuroscientists and magicians to the Island of Thought, also called San Sim?n, in the bay of Vigo, Spain. In a few days this remarkable group of students of human behavior and the mind advanced discussion in several important areas?teamwork at its best.
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Following the Scientific American-sponsored $50,000 Science in Action Award announced last month comes the rest of the Google Science Fair category winners, to be announced on July 23. This is the second year of the global online competition, which awards students in three age groups from 13 to 18, and I am delighted to be one of the judges. Look for our coverage at www.ScientificAmerican.com. ?M.D.
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Blind swimmer Tharon Drake, right, seeks the hand of fellow swimmer Lt. Bradley Snyder to congratulate him on winning the 400-meter freestyle event in record time on Thursday at the 2012 U.S. Paralympics Swimming Trials in Bismarck, N.D. Snyder earned a spot on Team USA's swim team for the Paralympics later this summer in London.
By Bill Briggs
London is calling for Lt. Brad Snyder.
The former Navy bomb defuser, who last September lost both eyes in an Afghan explosion, formally gained a roster spot Sunday on the U.S. Paralympic team bound for England, after swimming what he agreed was the race of his life.
?I?m super excited,? said Snyder, 28. ?Normally, I?m a little too prideful to admit I am nervous before a race. But I was a little nervous. There was a pretty sizable uncertainly? that he would swim well enough to qualify.
To earn a ticket to London later this summer, Snyder needed to swim at least 41 seconds faster than his previous best in his top event, the 400-meter freestyle. In competitive swimming, where outcomes usually are measured in tenths of seconds, 41 seconds is an eternity.
But Snyder didn?t simply meet his goal. He demolished it, going 54 seconds faster than he ever had since losing his sight. Snyder clocked a 4:35.62 ? now the current, world-best time at that distance for fully blind swimmers.
Need more context? That time was just 1.5 seconds behind the mark he posted at that distance while swimming for the Naval Academy seven years ago, when he could see the lane lines, the competition and, most importantly, the wall.
Editor's note: This is the third installment that chronicles Lt. Brad Snyder's efforts to earn a spot on Team USA's roster for the 2012 London Paralympics.?Read the first story here?and read the second story here.
Lucky No. 12
Still, he had to wait until Sunday morning when the U.S. Paralympic swimming coaches announced the 14 names on the American men?s roster. To hear the news, hundreds of athletes, family members and coaches packed an academic hall at Bismarck State College, host of the meet. Dozens more people couldn?t be seated and waited for news while standing in a nearby hallway. Eleven names already had been read before Snyder finally heard his.
He stood, felt a massive wave of emotion rising in his throat and then walked, led via one arm by his brother, Mitchell, toward most of the rest of the men?s team already gathered at the front of the room.
Lt. Brad Snyder lost his sight in an IED explosion in Afghanistan last September. The Navy officer is now training to represent the U.S. at the London 2012 Paralympics.
?As I was walking him over, I was just staring down at the floor. I didn?t want look at anyone because I thought I was going to cry,? said Mitchell Snyder. ?I was mostly thinking how far he?s come since September. I couldn?t have been prouder.?
At the swimming trials, Mitchell served as his brother?s ?tapper? ? a person assigned to touch a blind swimmer on the head or shoulder with a walking cane to warn him or her that the wall is near and that a flip turn or a finishing kick is needed. No other communication is allowed between the tapper and a swimmer.
?The moment his name was announced everyone erupted and I guess he got a standing ovation,? said Mitchell Snyder, 25. ?He couldn?t see it. And I didn?t want to see it because I thought I was going to lose it.?
Snyder joins a rising corps of wounded U.S. servicemen and servicewomen who will again battle for their nation overseas ? this time as Paralympians vying for gold medals in track, cycling, archery, wheelchair tennis and an array of other sports. More than 30 active-duty and retired soldiers and sailors are expected to make the 2012 American Paralymic team ? double the number that competed for Team USA at the Beijing Paralympic Games four years ago.
Golden favorite
?You can look at it and say, unfortunately, we?re having a lot of guys hurt. But at the same time we?re having a lot of guys hurt who are finding relevancy in going out there and succeeding post-injury,? Brad Snyder said. ?We?re finding a way to get past, finding a way to strive for success just the way we were in the military.
?After joining the military, you want to be the best in the world at your job because it means life or death. (After injury) we?re stripped of the ability to do that the way we used to do. But we can still find an avenue through elite competition.?
Lt. Brad Snyder, blinded by an IED explosion in Afghanistan, is now training for the London 2012 Paralympics.
This week, Snyder will return to his intern job at a Baltimore software company. And he will continue training at a Baltimore aquatic center with his coach, Brian Loeffler, in preparation for the London Games. At the 2012 Paralympics, he also will be considered a front runner for a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle. At the Bismarck trials, Snyder swam that event in 57.75 seconds ? now the current, world-best time for blind athletes.
But he?ll never forget, he said, his very first race in Bismarck ? the chase that offered Snyder his first solid proof that he could, once again, be the best in the world at something.
With an entry time of 5:29, Snyder wasn?t fully sure he could finish close to the 4:43 mark held by Spaniard Enhamed Enhamed ? formerly the holder of the record in the 400-meter freestyle. Among blind swimmers, Enhamed has been a giant for years, collecting four gold medals at the Beijing Paralympics.
Unforgettable performance
Last Thursday morning, amid the preliminary heat for that same event, Mitchell Snyder glanced at the pool clock several times from his tapper position as his brother churned his arms and kicked his feet.?
?But I was at the finishing end, so I had to make sure he was going to hit the wall safe and I couldn?t watch the clock when he touched,? Mitchell Snyder said. ?Earlier in the race, though, it became abundantly clear during the first hundred meters, and the second hundred and the third hundred that, unless something drastically wrong happened, we had a No. 1 time in the world on our hands.?
?They?re strict in what the tapper can or can?t say,? Brad Snyder added. ?So when I finished, I didn?t know what my time was. I can?t look at the scoreboard. And none of the people in front of the (starting) blocks can tell me. But I was fortunate that the announcer of the meet ? and only by virtue of the fact that I was the first one to the wall ? announced the time, 4:39. I kind of heard it. And I thought, 4:39, wow that?s kind of fast.?
Knowing he had a world-best time already tucked away in the prelim, Snyder said he was able to relax and swim the event?s final race that night much more freely.
But again, after he touched the wall at the finish, he didn?t know how he had fared.
Then somebody ? somebody who was sitting behind the blocks ? and I don?t even know who it was, whispered to me, ?4:35!? I had shaved four more seconds off my time. They weren?t supposed to tell me. But I could definitely hear the excitement in their voice.?
Bill Briggs is a frequent contributor to msnbc.com and author of ?The Third Miracle.??
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Human antagonists can bring far more stress to a journey than a ticking clock. Phileas Fogg learned that, and now Tesla Roadster owner Rafael de Mestre is discovering it too. He wants to be the first to drive a standard EV (i.e. not solar- or hydrogen-powered vehicle) around the world, and just like Jules Verne's hero he intends to do it in 80 days -- but he's not alone. Two Frenchmen in a little Citroen C-Zero (a sibling of the Mitsubishi i) have the same ambition, and although they've budgeted a comfortable eight months for their trip, they already have a three-month head start over de Mestre. As things stand, the Roadster is on a ship bound for China, while the Citroen duo are trundling up through Malaysia. Fortunately, de Mestra's figured out another bit of racing wisdom: the importance of demoralizing your enemies with YouTube clips like the one after the break.
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