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I was staunchly against the Tara Thornton character and her sassy attitude at the beginning of Alan Ball's HBO vampire series True Blood, but Rutina Wesley has slowly won me over with her quick delivery and ability to lighten up Tara's downward spiral. But I guess showing up drunk to a party in your high school prom dress could melt just about any cruel heart. Truly Tara is a character that started out a little raw, but has begun growing on us all with each psychic that she beats the living hell out of. We got the chance to ask Rutina Wesley a few questions and find out whether or not she'd really date a vampire. More »
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Late last week, the science ship Tara returned from its mission to study climate change in the polar ice region. Here it is, about to dock in Norwegian Spitzberg. Its long journey through the polar region left it deliberately stuck in ice off the coast of Siberia for 500 days. If you look at the photograph below, of the ship leaving on its voyage, you can see that it's built very much like a large sailboat. More »
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