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Michelle Obama’s Vogue Cover

It’s official: Following much speculation, First Lady Michelle Obama will grace the cover of Vogue’s March issue. The magazine hits newsstands on February 24th.

Obama was interviewed by Vogue Editor-at-Large André Leon Talley and photographed by Annie Leibovitz.

*Scroll down to see the cover and an interior shot.*

According to the AP:
Every first lady since Lou Hoover — save Bess Truman — has been featured in the high-fashion magazine, but Mrs. Obama is only the second to grace the cover. She appears wearing a magenta silk sheath dress by Jason Wu, who also designed her inaugural gown.

Michelle Obama to Grace Cover of Vogue Magazine

First Lady Michelle Obama appears on the March cover of Vogue, becoming one of two first ladies to be pictured on the famed cover, along with Hillary Clinton.

In the cover photo, taken by Annie Leibovitz, Obama is leaning on a soft beige sofa at the Hay-Adams Hotel, where the first family stayed days before the historic inauguration. Obama is wearing a magenta dress by Jason Wu, who designed her inaugural ball gown. Her right hand rests under her chin. Her left hand folded beneath her. She is wearing a diamond that you do not often see her wearing in recent appearances. Behind her, light streams in between curtains.

Inside, a photograph shows her in a black dress by designer Narciso Rodriguez. She is standing in front of open French doors. Outside is Lafayette Park and in the distance you can barely see the White House, the seat of power. Behind her are the props of her profession: a laptop, a cup of coffee or more likely tea. A notepad, a pen. A folded newspaper. She is tethered to work by an old-fashioned telephone, the spiral cord stretched, the receiver at her right ear. She is not talking. She is either listening or on hold.

Starting with Lou Hoover, Herbert Hoover’s wife, first ladies have been photographed for Vogue, but those photos have often appeared inside where they are well placed, not quite hidden, but not quite having the oomph of being featured out front.

“It’s the second time a first lady has appeared on cover of Vogue,” says Vogue spokesman Patrick O’Connell. The two Obama “portraits were commissioned. They were taken by Annie Leibovitz at the Hay-Adams in January.” The cover story is written by Vogue editor-at-large, Andre Leon Talley.

In the article, Obama tells Talley that she is settling in, trying to find a church to join and help her daughters get adjusted. “I’m going to try to take them to school every morning — as much as I can,” she tells Talley. “But there’s also a measure of independence. And obviously there will be times I won’t be able to drop them off at all. I like to be a presence in my kids’ school. I want to know the teacher; I want to know the other parents.”

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Today, the Obama Inauguration Day. This celebrations will officially start with the oath of office at 10 AM on the West Front of the Capitol Building. You can see this celebrations on different TV channel.

Barack Hussein Obama is the forty fourth President of the United States. His term as President is now started today after the inauguration ceremony.

Obama inauguration is expected to be attended by two million people who have record of history.When President Bush was sworn in as new president in 2001, only 300,000 people attended. Today’s celebrations theme is “A New Birth of Freedom”.

The Obamas are scheduled to attend the inaugural balls as The Commander-in-Chief’s Ball, The Eastern Ball, Western Ball, The, The Midwestern Ball, Mid-Atlantic Ball, young Ball,The neighborhood Inaugural Ball, President Obama Home Ball State , the people’s Inaugural Ball, The Green Constituent Ball. The Obamas Couple will dance on every ball.

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U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named Harvard physicist John Holdren and marine biologist Jane Lubchenco to top science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming that were criticized for putting politics over science.

Both Holdren and Lubchenco are leading experts on climate change who have advocated forceful government response.

Holdren will become Obama’s science adviser as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Lubchenco will lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees ocean and atmospheric studies and does much of the government’s research on global warming.

Holdren also will direct the president’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. Joining him as co-chairs will be Nobel Prize-winning scientist Harold Varmus, a former director of the National Institutes of Health, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Eric Lander, a specialist in human genome research.

“From landing on the moon, to sequencing the human genome, to inventing the Internet, America has been the first to cross that new frontier because we had leaders who paved the way,” Obama said in announcing his selections in his weekly radio address. “Leaders who not only invested in our scientists, but who respected the integrity of the scientific process.”

“Because the truth is that promoting science isn’t just about providing resources - it’s about protecting free and open inquiry. It’s about ensuring that facts and evidence are never twisted or obscured by politics or ideology,” he said. “I could not have a better team to guide me in this work.”

In their posts, the four scientists will confront challenges in global warming after years of inaction by the Bush administration, which opposed mandatory cuts of greenhouse gas pollution. Last year, former Surgeon General Richard Carmona testified to Congress that top Bush administration officials often dismissed global warming as a “liberal cause” and sought to play down public health reports out of political considerations.

Since 1993, summer Arctic sea ice has lost the equivalent of Alaska, California and Texas, and global warming is accelerating. The amount of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has already pushed past the level some scientists say is safe.

Holdren, 64, is a former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington who has pushed for more urgent action on global warming. As Obama’s top science adviser, he would manage about 40 Ph.D-level experts who help shape and communicate science and technology policy.

Colleagues say the post is well-suited for Holdren, who at Harvard went from battling the spread of nuclear weapons to tackling the threat of global warming. He’s an award-laden scientist comfortable in many different fields.

“Global warming is a misnomer. It implies something gradual, something uniform, something quite possibly benign, and what we’re experiencing is none of those,” Holdren said a year ago in a speech at Harvard. “There is already widespread harm … occurring from climate change. This is not just a problem for our children and our grandchildren.”

Lubchenco, an Oregon State University professor specializing in overfishing and climate change, will be the first woman to head NOAA. A member of the Pew Oceans Commission, Lubchenco has recommended steps to overcome crippling damage to the world’s oceans from overfishing and pollution and has expressed optimism for change once President George W. Bush leaves office.

“The Bush administration has not been respectful of the science,” she said earlier this year. “But I think that’s not true of Republicans in general. I know it’s not. I am very much looking forward to a new administration that does respect scientific information and that considers it very seriously in making environmental policies.”

Varmus, who was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for his research on the causes of cancer, served as National Institutes of Health director during the Clinton administration. A former medical professor at the University of California, San Francisco, he helped found the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention and chairs a scientific board at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Lander, who teaches at both MIT and Harvard, founded the Whitehead Institute-MIT Center for Genome Research in 1990, which became part of the Broad Institute in 2003. A leading researcher in the Human Genome Project, he and his colleagues are using the findings to explore the molecular mechanisms behind human disease.

In his radio address, Obama said he planned early next year to more closely address the issue of engaging the nation’s technology community to “harness technology and innovation to create jobs, enhance America’s competitiveness and advance our national priorities.”

“It’s time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and worked to restore America’s place as the world leader in science and technology,” he said.

President-elect Barack Obama will name Arne Duncan, the superintendent of schools in Chicago, to be his Secretary of Education, a senior Democratic official and a second person close to the decision said.

Mr. Duncan is a Harvard graduate whose friendship with Mr. Obama began on the basketball court and flowered into frequent discussions of education policy.

He has seven years’ experience as chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools, the nation’s third-largest school district, where he has earned a solid reputation for confronting pressing issues in public education, like how to raise teacher quality, how to transform weak schools and when to shutter those that are irredeemably failing.

Word of the selection comes as Mr. Obama’s transition team said Monday that he would make an important announcement on Tuesday morning at the Dodge Renaissance Academy, an elementary school that Mr. Duncan and Mr. Obama visited together in October 2005.

The tribal council has spoken! CBS’ “Survivor” started with 20 contestants — but now only one “Survivor” reigns.

58-year-old ethics teacher Bob Crowley won it all on live television tonight! The new millionaire is the oldest winner in “Survivor” history.

“I just tried to be necessary and friendly,” Bob said of his strategy. “My plan was to fly under the radar as long as I could.”

Bob, Ken Hoang, Jessica “Sugar” Kiper, Susie Smith and Matty Whitmore were the five contestants who remained on the season finale.

After Ken was voted off in the first challenge, hairdresser Susie won the House of Cards challenge keeping her in the top 3. “That’s what happens when you underestimate someone,” contestant Sugar says about Susie’s unbelievable win.

Matty and Bob were forced into a fire making challenge after the votes showed a tie regarding which one of them should go home. Bob won the challenge and moved on to the final top 3.

Bob’s “jury of peers” then voted him the “sole survivor.”