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The vice president will finally be introduced in Thursday's episode of Scandal and she's the polar opposite of President Fitz (Tony Goldwyn).

"She's kind of like a combo physically between Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi, but when she opens her mouth she's pure Michele Bachmann," says Kate Burton, who plays Sally Langston, the Tea Party conservative who was once Fitz's enemy. (She sounds peachy!) Burton is all too familiar with playing a strong female matriarch, having portrayed Ellis Grey on Grey's Anatomy, a role that surely came in handy when taking on the VP of the United States.

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But who is Sally really? And could she be behind the mysterious blackmailer who's giving the President so much trouble? TVGuide.com caught up with Burton to get the scoop on that and her reunion with her Grey's Anatomy ex-husband:

What kind of person is the vice president? Kate Burton: She's an absolutely strict, conservative Southern republican. It's just really fascinating to play her because things came out of my mouth that would actually never come out of my real mouth. She is so arch-conservative and the president is so moderate. I wanted to play her and obviously not make her any kind of cartoon liberal or conservative. I wanted to make her a real person. We know what a real person she is because there are things that get to her more than anything: anything to do with her daughter. She is a mom who became a politician and she's ruthless, but she's also got a heart.

Fitz and Sally were actually running against each other in the presidential campaign. What can you tell us about their road to the White House? Burton: The reality is, when we do the flashback [in next week's episode], we discover that she was actually in the lead. She was doing really, really well. As things happen in politics, something turned everything around and then suddenly he starts becoming much more appealing. Their competition was very real. It was a real clear choice between the two of them, and she was gaining. It was a juggernaut and they didn't quite know how to stop her.

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Is Sally still angry that Fitz beat her to the presidency? Burton: If you read about anything where there is a very powerful contest between two very different people, like Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy, suddenly Kennedy ascends and he asks Johnson to be his vice president. It's not easy because Johnson's used to being in a very powerful position. I'm also on Veep on HBO and that's our running gag: When you become vice president, you lose your power. It is hard for Sally, but she's a politician. She is very, very deeply religious, by the way. I can't believe I haven't mentioned that until now! She's a woman of the founding faith. So she uses her faith to help her with how disappointed she is with not being able to win the presidency, or the nomination.

Would she do anything to get into the Oval Office? Could she be behind the blackmailing? Burton: I think she's pretty determined. She's pretty ruthless. It's going to be a very uneasy partnership between she and Fitz. And of course when she discovers what is happening with Amanda Tanner (Liza Weil), she operates on a fairly moral high ground. What I love about Tony is that you don't know whether to like him or dislike him a lot of the time, and I think the same with me. You probably will not know whether I was the good guy or the bad guy. I think I'm both, and I think he is too. Both of them have these very manipulative chiefs, Billy Chambers (Matt Letscher) and Cyrus Beene (Jeff Perry), and those Chiefs of Staff will stop at nothing.

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Googles public version of events of how it came to secretly intercept Americans data sent on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers over a two-year period doesnt quite mesh with what the search giant told federal regulators.

And if Google had its way, the public would have never learned the software on Googles Street View mapping cars was intended to collect payload data from open Wi-Fi networks.

A Federal Communications Commission document disclosed Saturday showed for the first time that the software in Googles Street View mapping cars was intended to collect Wi-Fi payload data, and that engineers had even transferred the data to an Oregon Storage facility. Google tried to keep that and other damning aspects of the Street View debacle from public review, the FCC said.

Google accompanied its responses to the FCC inquiry with a very broad request for confidential treatment of the information it submitted, the FCC said, in a letter to Google, saying it would remove most of the redaction from the FCCs public report and other documents surrounding the debacle.

The FCC document unveiled Saturday is an unredacted version of an FCC finding, which was published last month with dozens of lines blacked out. The report said that Google could not be held liable for wiretapping, despite a federal judge holding otherwise.

The unredacted FCC report refers to a Google design document written by an engineer who crafted the Street View software to collect so-called payload data, which includes telephone numbers, URLs, passwords, e-mail, text messages, medical records, video and audio files sent over open Wi-Fi networks.

The engineer is referred to as Engineer Doe in the report, though he was identified on Sunday as Marius Milner, a well-known figure in the Wi-Fi hacking community. The document says the software Milner used collected 200 gigabytes of data via Street View cars between 2008 and 2010:

The design document showed that, in addition to collecting data that Google could use to map the location of wireless access points, Engineer Doe intended to collect, store, and analyze payload data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks. The design document notes that [w]ardriving can be used in a number of ways, including to observe typical Wi-Fi usage snapshots. In a discussion of Privacy Considerations, the design document states, A typical concern might be that we are logging user traffic along with sufficient data to precisely triangulate their position at a given time, along with information about what they were doing. That statement plainly refers to the collection of payload data because MAC addresses, SSIDs, signal-strength measurements. and other information used to map the location of wireless access points would reveal nothing about what end users were doing. Engineer Doe evidently intended to capture the content of Wi-Fi communications transmitted when Street View cars were in the vicinity, such as e-mail, and text messages sent to or from wireless access points. Engineer Doe identified privacy as an issue but concluded that it was not a significant concern because the Street View cars would not be in proximity to any given user for an extended period of time, and [n]one of the data gathered [would] be presented to end users of [Google's] services in raw form. Nevertheless, the design document listed as a to do item, [D]iscuss privacy considerations with Product Counsel. That never occurred. The design document also states that the Wi-Fi data Google gathered be analyzed offline for use in other initiatives, and that [analysis of the gathered data [was] a non goal (though it [would] happen.

The majority of those words were originally blacked out at Googles request, but the commission subsequently concluded, after the report was filed, that much of it should be made publicly available because Disclosure of this information may cause commercial embarrassment, but that is not a basis for requesting confidential treatment.

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It's the moment we've been waiting for: the Grey's Anatomy residents are taking their medical boards this Thursday, and we'll finally get to see how each of the docs handled it. By the looks of the sneak peek below, Jackson (Jesse Williams) is just as nerve-wracked as the rest of them. Why? Well, he did just sleep with his best friend, and then learn that his mentor and his mother hooked up. TVGuide.com turned to Williams to get the scoop on the medical boards, the future for April (Sarah Drew) and Jackson and Jesus, apparently and how Jackson will handle a possible Slexie reunion.

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How will the Seattle Grace residents handle the boards, especially Jackson? Jesse Williams: It gets pretty entertaining because he was stressed about it everybody is really stressed about it but he is uniquely stressed in that this is his family legacy, and he's frustrated not to just pass the boards, but he's got to get the highest damn mark. He's angry. He's going to make some calls, his grandfather is going to be making calls, and his mom is going to be making calls. Everybody wants to make sure about the outcome. The pressure is never going to stop for him.

And on top of that you have the distraction of his mom being there. Catherine Avery (Debbie Allen) does not show up quietly. She's usually there and ruins something for him. He's spent his whole life getting ready for this weekend to pass this test and that's when she shows up and has sex with the Chief (James Pickens Jr.)? Really?! I don't think he'll ever forgive her for this, for putting him in a position like that because it really is distracting for him. It's not like it's just par for the course. It's just a major, major distraction.

How will one of the residents failing the boards end up affecting the rest of the group? Williams: It's going to affect them all a lot. I think it's scary. It's a reality check, and it's also something that could happen to anybody. Never mind that there's personal connections to people, it certainly matters because it cannot go unnoticed.

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Turning to April and Jackson, she revealed that she regrets her actions because now Jesus hates her. How will this affect what's going on between them? Williams: He's going to deal with, "Wow, that's amazing. I did not see that coming. I was worried about you and your virginity. I didn't think there was a whole other being in the picture which was Jesus and you are keeping yourself for him. And second of all, we are best friends. How the hell did I not know that? Why didn't you tell me that? I thought we shared each other's secrets? I thought we counted on each other? Why did you feel that you couldn't tell people? Isn't that difficult to be a doctor of science and medicine and hold such strong beliefs?"

Jackson, first and foremost, is her friend and sometimes he's her protector. That's one thing that makes it really unique and interesting about the beginning of this relationship, really having formed a platonic bond first. But then there's also how this plays out if we are still going to be friends. What if we go even further and become a romantic thing? Where are my religious beliefs? Does that matter? Are they in conflict with yours? There are many ways that this can work beautifully, and I think that we will also see many ways that this can be doomed. That's just realistic.

Because she loves Jesus, but she already gave herself away to you, does that mean they have to get married now? Williams: That's interesting. Part of her wants to hide and pretend that this didn't happen, but they want to be around each other. Whether they like it or not, they are each other's go-to person. What happens if they can't do that? What's more important for them: to protect the friendship, the romance, the intimacy, or them being independent people? On top of that, they've got to get new jobs and try to become real doctors and see if they can pass their boards. They have to get out of this weekend, never mind this week or this month.

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Martin Clayton, senior curator of the Royal Collection, shows Fergus Walsh some of the exhibition highlights

The largest exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of the human body goes on display in the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace this week. So how accurate were they?

During his lifetime, Leonardo made thousands of pages of notes and drawings on the human body.

He wanted to understand how the body was composed and how it worked. But at his death in 1519, his great treatise on the body was incomplete and his scientific papers were unpublished.

Based on what survives, clinical anatomists believe that Leonardo's anatomical work was hundreds of years ahead of its time, and in some respects it can still help us understand the body today.

So how do these drawings, sketched more than 500 years ago, compare to what digital imaging technology can tell us today?

From a notebook dated 1489, there is a series of meticulous drawings of the skull.

Leonardo has cut off the front of the face to show what lies beneath. It is difficult to cut these bones without damaging them. And elsewhere in his papers, Leonardo left a drawing of the knives he used.

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Patrick Dempsey, who plays Dr. Derek Shepherd on "Grey's Anatomy," came to the aid of a teen injured in a car accident.

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McDreamy to the rescue!

Likethe doctor he plays on the hittelevision seriesGreys Anatomy would do,actor Patrick Dempsey came to the aid of a stranger whose car had flipped during an auto accident.

Weston Masset, 17, lost control of his Mustang near Dempseys home in Malibu, Calif. The car rolled three times trapping Masset, who was barely conscious.

According to a report at People, Dempsey used a crowbar and fire extinguisher to rescue the teenager. After pulling Masset clear of the car, the actor called paramedics and practiced his best bedside manner until the injured teen was airlifted to the hospital where he was treated for an eye injury and a concussion.

I was scared for my life. I was upside down, Masset said in an interview with ABC. He also asked Dempsey, who plays Dr. Derek (McDreamy) Shepherd on Greys Anatomy, if he was famous. Dempsey, 46, replied, Yeah, Im a doctor.

Medicaland celebrity jokingaside, Masset said, "He was there for me. It would have been a lot worse without me."

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Patrick Dempsey, who saves lives on a weekly basis as Dr. "McDreamy" Shepherd on Grey's Anatomy, got a chance to rescue someone in real life.

On Tuesday, the actor pulled a teen from an overturned car after an accident, according to a tweet from The Shield creator Shawn Ryan.

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The post reads, "True Story: Grey's Anatomy actor Patrick Dempsey pulled my friend's son out of overturned car after bad accident on Tuesday. #GoodDude."

Dempsey recently tweeted that there were "lots of tears," reading the Season 8 finale for Grey's Anatomy. He has yet to sign a new contract to return to the ABC medical drama next season.

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