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Join us below at 11 A.M. Eastern time on Wednesday, July 4 for a live 30-minute online chat with physicist Michael Tuts of Columbia University, who will discuss an early-morning announcement from CERN, a Switzerland-based lab for particle physics, about the long-running search for the Higgs boson. We invite you to submit questions in advance in the comments section at the bottom of this page.

The Higgs particle, first hypothesized in the 1960s by physicist Peter Higgs and others, would help explain why elementary particles, such as quarks, have mass. Finding the Higgs?or ruling out its existence?was the prime motivation for building the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where researchers collide protons traveling at nearly light-speed to create new particles.

[Click here to watch a Webcast of the announcement starting at 3 A.M. EDT Wednesday. The chat will take place later in chat box below.]

Michael Tuts, the U.S. operations program manager for the ATLAS detector at the LHC, will answer your questions during the chat about the Higgs, the LHC and what comes next in particle physics if indeed the Higgs has been found. We will turn on the capacity to log in to the chat box below around 10:50 A.M. EDT.

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Prior to working as a writer and editor for an online self-help superstore, I spent several years working as an Operational Manager in the publishing department of one of Britain?s largest mail order retailers. In a nutshell, my job was to make sure things happened on time, to budget and to the standard laid out in our many service level agreements. To that end, it was my remit to review our operational processes and improve them.

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Can CW's "The Selection" catch "Hunger Games" fire?

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - One of the CW's brightest hopes for next season is a show about a young girl in a futuristic, war-torn nation who is chosen by lottery to compete for fame and fortune against a backdrop of hunger and carnage.

Sound familiar? The CW hopes so.

"The Selection" is one of eight pilots the ratings-challenged CW is considering as a fall series; it will make its decisions this spring.

The hope is that "The Selection" might ride the success of "The Hunger Games" the way the network's biggest hit, "The Vampire Diaries," has surfed the "Twilight" phenomenon.

And it's no coincidence that the new series is written and produced by "Vampire Diaries" writers Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain.

All began as young adult novels, and the network acknowledges that "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games" stirred its interest in "The Vampire Diaries" and now "The Selection." But that doesn't make the shows rip-offs.

The "Vampire Diaries" novels predated the "Twilight" books by more than a decade. And the author of the novel "The Selection," the basis for the pilot, remembers jotting down the idea for it before "The Hunger Games" hit bookshelves.

But in the case of both "The Vampire Diaries" and "The Selection," the successful film adaptation of one series of books spawned an interest in a TV version of a different but similar series of novels.

HarperCollins will publish "The Selection," the first book in a planned trilogy, on April 24. Its author, Kiera Cass, says she first wrote down the idea in the summer of 2008 - soon before the first book in Suzanne Collins' "Hunger Games" trilogy was published.

Though she developed her ideas independently, she recognized that the success of Collins' series could help her sell her story, she said.

"I totally see how it lines up with 'The Hunger Games' - there's a lottery aspect, a competition, it's in the future - and when we went to pitch it to editors, that's how my agent and I described it: 'The Hunger Games' meets 'The Bachelor,'" Cass told TheWrap. "I don't think we expected that label to stick. But it kind of works. It's a lot lighter than 'The Hunger Games' though, so if that's something people are looking for, then they might really enjoy my book."

Or the show. Craft and Fain's pilot script makes no bones about its similarities to "The Hunger Games." A mention of the franchise appears on the first page of a recent draft, which also explains the rigid caste system in Cass' imagined land of Illea: "As in THE HUNGER GAMES," the script reads, "this future is harsh but lush."

But perhaps not as harsh as the one in "The Hunger Games."

As Cass notes, her book has a lighter tone. Its lead character, the immediately likeable America Singer, has to compete with 34 other girls for the affections of a prince in a competition held in his castle. The book's cover shows her trying on a beautiful dress.

Like Katniss Everdeen of "the Hunger Games," portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence on film, America is lucky enough to be played by an actress who can mix toughness and vulnerability. Aimee Teegarden's casting in the lead role should win "The Selection" at least some critical goodwill, if the series makes it to air, given her turn on the widely acclaimed "Friday Night Lights." Ethan Peck, grandson of Oscar-winning actor Gregory Peck, has been cast as the prince.

The girlier elements of "The Hunger Games" - Katniss undergoing a makeover to try to win popular support and finding herself torn between two brave, sensitive boys - are almost lost amid the surprising bloodshed. "The Selection" focuses more on its Cinderella story. It has its violence, though America isn't dishing it out, Katniss-style: The kingdom where she competes to win over Prince Maxon is under attack by rebels.

That lighter touch may help "The Selection" score with the CW's target audience, women 18-34, after a rough season for the network. Almost every returning drama is either down or flat in the ratings, both in the 18-34 demographic and the 18-49 demo most prized by advertisers. The only returning show that is up, "One Tree Hill," has aired its last episode.

"The Vampire Diaries," the network's biggest series, is hanging tough in both demos, neither gaining nor losing viewers. It averages a 1.3 rating in the 18-49 demo, a number that would be considered weak on any of the four biggest broadcasters.

This season's new shows - "Ringer," "Hart of Dixie" and "The Secret Circle" - have earned unimpressive numbers.

But "The Selection" isn't the CW's only hope for next season. "The Carrie Diaries," a prequel to "Sex and the City," may have a built-in audience thanks to that book-turned-show-turned-film franchise's popularity. "Arrow" hopes to repeat the long run of "Smallville" by following another DC Comics superhero, Green Arrow. And "Beauty and the Beast" stars "Smallville" actress Kristin Kreuk as the prettier half of the duo.

As dueling "Beauty and the Beast" projects show, a story need not be startlingly original to appeal to TV executives or audiences. CW's "Beauty and the Beast" updates the '80s CBS show of the same name. ABC has the pilot for the other "Beauty and the Beast."

All of the "Beauty and the Beast" shows are based on a fairy tale that is at least 270 years old.

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Rick Santorum Suspends Republican Presidential Campaign

'Against all odds we won 11 states,' Santorum said on Tuesday (April 10).
By Gil Kaufman

Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania
Photo: Jeff Swensen/ Getty Images

After an improbable run that boosted him from a barely-considered fringe candidate a year ago to the last man standing to rival Mitt Romney
 for the Republican presidential nomination, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum announced he was suspending his campaign on Tuesday (April 10).

"We made the decision to get into this race at our kitchen table against all the odds and we made a decision over the weekend that while this presidential race for us is over, for me, and we will suspend our campaign effective today, we are not done fighting," he said.

The 12-minute afternoon press conference in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania featured Santorum surrounded by his family and backed by a flag as he re-iterated many of the themes of his campaign: the rebirth of American manufacturing, reforming Washington and a return to conservative values. "Against all odds we won 11 states, millions of voters, millions of votes," he said. "We won more counties than all the other people in this race combined."

With his emphasis on American manufacturing front-and-center to the end, Santorum even joked about his now-infamous sweater vests, noting that he sourced them from an American company, Minnesota's Bemidji Woolen Mills.

The suspension removed the last major obstacle to Romney's bid to become the uncontested front-runner in the race, paving the way for him to focus full-time on attacking President Obama. Santorum had positioned himself as the only true conservative left in the GOP field, sitting way behind the pack for much of 2011 as a wide field of other candidates, and would-be candidates, rose and fell before him, including Donald Trump, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry.

In late 2011, he caught fire unexpectedly, though, narrowly winning the Iowa caucus
 (after the fact), then winning 10 more states along the way, despite being vastly outspent and outmanned by Romney at every stop.

The press conference came a day after three-year-old daughter Isabella was released from the hospital following her latest health scare, which took place on Friday and kept the family by her side all of Easter weekend. Bella suffers from the genetic condition Trisomy 18 and her hospitalization resulted in Santorum canceling his campaign events on Monday and Tuesday and speculation that he might be considering a suspension of his efforts.

Romney released a statement praising his one-time foe, saying, "Senator Santorum is an able and worthy competitor, and I congratulate him on the campaign he ran. He has proven himself to be an important voice in our party and in the nation. We both recognize that what is most important is putting the failures of the last three years behind us and setting America back on the path to prosperity." Though the men traded harsh barbs during the campaign, it is expected that Santorum will fall in line and throw his support behind Romney in a bid to deny Obama a second term.

With polls showing that he was on track to possibly lose in the April 24 primary in his home state of Pennsylvania — which would have been embarrassing and possibly hurtful to his political future — Santorum's exit leaves Romney with just two remaining challengers. At press time neither Gingrich nor Congressman Ron Paul appears to present much of a threat, as they are far behind in the delegate count and in fundraising. Gingrich, who has won two primaries, conceded over the weekend that Romney is "far and away the most likely" nominee; libertarian Paul has yet to win a primary.

Like Santorum, Romney still faces a serious gap with Obama when it comes to young voters (18-29), 22 million of whom voted in 2008. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), Santorum was trailing among that demographic up until Super Tuesday, when his wins in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries helped vault him beyond youth-magnet Ron Paul. Even with that victory, though, Santorum still trailed Romney in terms of the overall youth vote count. Through Super Tuesday, the cumulative 2008 Democratic youth vote exceeded both the 2008 and 2012 count for the GOP, a figure that could prove important down the road for Romney.

Current estimates have Romney with 645 of the 1,144 delegates needed to win the nomination, with Santorum well behind at 252, Gingrich with 128 and Paul with 45. Romney still needs to reach the 1,144 figure to lock down the nomination, in addition to winning over the many still-unconvinced voters in the party's conservative base.

A Washington Post/ABC News poll released on Tuesday had Romney trailing Obama in a head-to-head race by a 51 to 44 percent margin.

Stick with MTV's Power of 12 throughout the presidential election season for updates and news from the campaigns.

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