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Maybe. The actress is helping to launch a new global effort to fight violence against women. Witherspoon is in Washington for a three-day summit, meeting with Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and others about ways to help the nearly one billion women who'll be victims of violence worldwide.
One way is Witherspoon's involvement with the Avon Foundation for Women that's selling a woman's empowerment ring to go along with the bracelet and necklace that have already raised $8 million dollars for programs that help women.
This is really cool! Google is adding a bike lane with its latest online mapping option.
The new bicycling directions available Wednesday on Google Maps supplement the guidance already provided to motorists and pedestrians.
The biking directions initially will be available only for the United States.
Google spent the past six months tweaking its mapping service so it could recommend routes that would steer bicyclists away from big hills and heavily congested streets.
The new feature makes Google the first major Internet mapping service to provide bicycling directions.
Google's mapping service is the most popular in the U.S., with more than 55 million visitors in February, according to the marketing research company comScore.
Here's an interesting fact......for all the years "The Bachelor" has been on the air, not one bachelor has married the bachelorette he selected on the show. Until now.
Jason Mesnick's wedding to Molly Malaney is airing as a special tonight on ABC.
Of course, I'm sure you remember Mesnick shockingly dumped Melissa Rycroft on the show and went with Malaney.
The wedding actually was a week ago south of Los Angeles outdoors in the rain.
U.S. Olympic gold medalists Lindsey Vonn, Shaun White and Seth Wescott are the latest athletes to grace the Wheaties box.
Minnesota-based General Mills Inc. says the three Olympians will each get their own orange cereal box.
Vonn will be the first female alpine skier to appear, and White and Wescott will be the first snowboard and snowboard cross athletes to earn the coveted spot.
Vonn, a native of Burnsville, Minn., posted a picture of herself with her Wheaties box on her Facebook page Thursday morning. She wrote that it was an honor to be included.
Separately, Vonn's sponsor Red Bull announced that her image would appear on limited-edition six-packs of the energy drink.
Crystal Bowersox is back on "American Idol" and sounding great. We still don't know what sent her to the hospital overnight earlier this week (I heard it was diabetes), but she says she's "a tough cookie."
All the judges were singing her praises and admiring her courage. Simon Cowell is glad Crystal didn't try playing the sympathy card.
Tonight, the Idol dream ends for two guys and two girls.
The Girl Scouts of Kyana is launching its Cookies for Soldiers program this month.
Councilwide, they're trying to collect 10,000 boxes for the servicemen and women.
They only have a couple of weeks to sell in March so we really need to help them out. If you see a Girl Scout out selling cookies and don't want any for yourself, donate them to the troops. Or you can stop by any Republic Bank and buy a few boxes and they'll take care of getting it to the soldiers.
Another incarnation of "Parenthood." "Parenthood" was a movie and a sitcom. Now, it's an hour-long dramedy, premiering tonight on NBC. Ron Howard is producing so it should be good. It stars Craig T. Nelson, Lauren Graham and Peter Krause.
The new "Parenthood" comes after a two-hour edition of "The Biggest Loser."
The top-10 girls perform on "American Idol" on Fox. It's a two-hour edition.
ABC is devoting two hours to "Lost." The first hour is a repeat of the last episode which is so stupid....most people aren't sure they want to see the new episodes much less a repeat! It's followed by a new one. Tonight, Sayid has a huge decision to make.
Now this ought to be cool... ABC presents a special edition of "20/20," called "Before They Were Famous." Family and friends of all this year's Oscar-nominated actors and actresses dig out old photos and home videos of the stars when they were just ordinary folk.
And then it' a late one for the Cards. They play at 9:30 on ESPNU.
PresidentObama owes his Canadian counterpart a case of beer.
Obama made the friendly wager with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper before Sunday's U.S.-Canada Olympic gold medal game.
Canada beat the United States 3-2 on Sidney Crosby's overtime goal.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the President had a case of Yuengling, a Pennsylvania regional brew, riding on the game. Harper wagered 24 bottles of Molson.
The beer battle pitted Canada's oldest brewery against the oldest beer maker in the United States.
Molson Canada is now a subsidiary of Molson Coors Brewing Co., a marriage of Molson and Denver-based Coors.
There was no word on where the cross-border exchange would occur.
Did you see the USA/Canada Women's Hockey game last night? Controversy, but not over the game, but what happened after that.
The IOC will investigate the behavior of the players who celebrated their gold medal by swigging beer and champagne on the ice.
Players came back onto the ice more than half an hour after the 2-0 victory over the United States. Still in their uniforms and with gold medals draped around their necks, they swigged from bottles of champagne and cans of beer and smoked cigars.
Gilbert Felli, the IOC's executive director of the Olympic Games, says he was unaware of the incidents until informed by an Associated Press reporter.
He says drinking in public by athletes at an Olympic venue is "not what we want to see" and not a good image for sports values.
Felli says the IOC will talk to the international hockey federation and Canadian Olympic Committee and then "act accordingly."
Taylor Hicks' advice for "American Idol" contestants: get off the phone!
He says people who yak on their cell phones for hours will show up to the "Idol" set with a weak voice. It makes sense that the kids would be on their phone's alot since they are away from family and friends. Put a weak tired voice and couple that with nerves and maybe that's why everybody has been dissapointing.
Hicks also adds that he'll be sad to see Simon Cowell leave as a judge but he thinks the show is not about the judges anyway. He says "the concept of watching the American dream unfold is what makes 'American Idol' 'American Idol."'
Hicks remembers Simon telling him he wouldn't make it past the final 24, but says he did apologize when he won, telling him he was wrong.
Hicks is currently touring in the production "Grease."
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