Curtis Brainard

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Last night at the 87th Academy Awards, Eddie Redmayne won the Oscar for best actor for his portrayal of theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.

A new, national survey released by the University of Michigan has found that 50 percent of parents who have teenage children would support later start times for high school.