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Beautified app launches for beauty appointments on the go
Launching in New York City with around 40 partners, new iOS (iPhone and iPad) app allows users to book exclusive appointments at high-end spas and salons in the Big Apple. Whether you're in need of a haircut, blowout, manicure, pedicure, wax, facial or massage, the team behind the product aims to have your spontaneous beauty sessions covered, and hair specialists ...
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Oprah Beyonce and Angelina Jolie among Forbes most powerful women list
Forbes magazine poll. Editors ranked Oprah at number 13, Beyonce at 17 - making them the only two entertainers to crack the top 20. German Chancellor Angela Merkel topped the list, followed by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and tech mogul Bill Gates' wife Melinda. Oscar winner and United Nations Ambassador Jolie, who recently went public with her double mastectomy story, comes in at ...
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Less-stressed women are more attractive to men Study
Researchers found that women who have higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol are rated as having less attractive faces by men than their more relaxed counterparts. Since stress can suppress fertility, study researcher Markus Rantala, a professor of biology at the University of Turku in Finland, told LiveScience, it's no surprise that both men and women might have evolved to prefer ...
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Motherlode Blog Why I Write About My Daughter’s O.C.D.
Two-Way Mirror: Facing a Daughter's O.C.D. ," about my daughter Lucy's treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette Syndrome, as well as my own history of mental illness. By doing so, I became what Phoebe Maltz Bovy, a blogger for The Atlantic, calls a ...
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T Magazine Objects | Rachel Comey’s Sculptural Swimwear Through a Photographer’s Lens
Willy Somma , with an unusual request: she wanted Somma to shoot a series of self-portraits while modeling Comey’s 2013 swim collection. ';I was a little like, ‘Uh, really? I’m not a swimsuit model,’'; said Somma, though her surfer’s body and blond tresses could easily fool you. ';She’s a bit of a beach babe,'; Comey said of her former ...
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This 23-Ton 5.3-Million Brick X-Wing Is the Biggest Lego Model Ever
The newest addition to the grand list of Coolest Things Ever is being unveiled in New York today: the Lego X-Wing, the largest Lego model ever built. The model of the ...
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Ukrainian court bars gay pride event citing security concerns
KIEV (Reuters) - A Kiev court on Thursday banned what would have Ukraine's first gay pride event after city authorities raised security ...
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Fox Office-firing show cathartic
been in the works at Fox for four years, with an early harsher draft of the concept drawing some controversy. Below, Fox’s president of alternative entertainment Mike Darnell discusses the kinder, ...
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Mohammed bin Rashid criminalizes the use of anabolic steroids for horse sports in the UAE
WAM Dubai, 23rd May 2013 (WAM) - His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President of the UAE and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, has today ordered the drafting of a decree rendering the import, sale, purchase and use of anabolic steroids in all horse related sports in the UAE a criminal offence. The decree is to have immediate effect. "I have always believed in the ...
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Brazilian Paralympic Committee sign agreement to develop winter sport ahead of Sochi 2014
Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...
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Xbox One Gamers unhappy about proposed fee for pre-owned games
Once customers have bought a game they will receive a unique code to activate their purchase. Once the code has been used the game will be linked to that individual's Xbox Live account. If a friend borrows the game CD then they will have to buy a new activation code before they can play. The new code will cost as much as the original game and consoles will have to be connected to the ...
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Xbox One vs PlayStation 4 Why Microsofts console name game just doesnt add up
On Tuesday, before a roomful of panting games journalists and sore-thumbed enthusiasts, Microsoft unveiled its latest games console. The curtain was pulled, and the Xbox One was revealed. As gamers ruminated on the implications of the 'box (not hardcore enough? Better than the forthcoming PlayStation 4?), some of us were left ...
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What’s for supper Stuffed and rolled shoulder of pork
2.5kg boned shoulder of porkSea saltFreshly ground black pepper8 large carrots, peeled and left whole8 banana shallots or small onions, peeled25g flour1 teaspoon Dijon mustard250ml white wineFor the stuffing1 tablespoon olive oil2 garlic cloves, crushed, peeled and diced2 onions, peeled and diced100g chicken livers, chopped200g minced pork75g toasted pine nuts100g stoned prunes, chopped100g ...
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Were just mad about saffron
You don't usually expect to find the replenishments for your spice rack under lock and key, but at my local supermarket in California in the 1980s, the saffron was that closely guarded. Shoppers looked on in curiosity as the mad Englishwoman patiently waited to procure her stash of a tiny packet of scarlet threads costing hundreds of dollars an ounce, desperately needed to gild and perfume ...
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T Magazine On View | Koloman Moser’s Viennese Vision
Hlya Kolabas Koloman Moser (1868-1918) was an Austrian artist and designer -- of everything from interiors and exhibitions to textiles and glass -- and a co-founder (with Josef Hoffman and Fritz Waerndorfer) of the influential, secessionist production cooperative Wiener Werksttte. Often overshadowed by Hoffmann, Moser is finally getting his first American museum exhibition: ';Koloman Moser: ...
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SNL Best host YOU say its...
… or whether you should go to bed and simply scan up through ';Weekend Update'; tomorrow on the DVR. Like a football or basketball game, a host can’t ...
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Video High-tech high fitness Can gadgets enhance your workout
Despite new government labels on sunscreen due out this summer, one watchdog group says high SPF ratings can give people a false sense of security. Norah O'Donnell ...
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Watch Sports Illustrated Model to Attend Prom with Teen
in sunny los angeles. Reporter: He's a high school senior with chutzpah. Kate, can I call you katie? Reporter: Chutzpah enough to ask a super hot supermodel to the prom. You're on the cover of "sports illustrated." I read "sports illustrated." Reporter: Jake's prom-posal to kate upton on youtube. We can ride around all night long until 11:00. That's my ...
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German brewers warn fracking could hurt beer industry
File photo of a waitress using a whistle to free her way while carrying ten of the traditional one-litre "Masskrug" beer mugs at the opening day of the Munich Oktoberfest at the Theresienwiese in Munich, September 22, 2012. (KAI ...
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GP who used spy watch to film himself abusing patients is jailed for 12 years
Dr Davinder Jeet Bains, who used a secret camera inside his James Bond-style wristwatch to record himself abusing female patients. Photograph: Wiltshire ...
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The four phases of successful in-house recruitment
Outsourcing the recruitment process is often touted as a saviour to local authorities seeking to achieve lower and lower spend. This has long been common practice in the private sector, and there's no doubt that in some cases outsourcing has been the answer for local government, too.However, it is important to remember that every organisation is different. Organisations are increasingly ...
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Pope Salvador president discuss beatification of slain archbishop
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The president of El Salvador met Pope Francis on Thursday to urge his fellow Latin American to put Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was murdered by a right-wing death squad in 1980, on the road to Roman Catholic ...
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Calorie restriction may not be good for your brain Study
While restricting calories will certainly help you lose weight, research already suggests that it also may slow aging, prolong life, and even cut the effects of certain diseases. But a new study takes it further by probing into whether or not it can delay nerve cell loss in the brain.Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), lead by Johannes Gräff, tested their ...
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Egypt to issue smart cards to fuel stations next month
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A motorcyclist carries fuel containers after filling them up from a petrol station as he passes other motorists in queue in Toukh, El-Kalubia governorate, about 25 km (16 miles) ...
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Promiscuous minds gather for Britains Hay Festival
LONDON (Reuters) - Some of the biggest names in literature, science and politics will pitch up to a small British town over the next week for a clan gathering of the world's most "promiscuous ...
Tajikistan Focus
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Tajikistan making sacrifices for the future
A massive hydroelectric dam in southern Tajikistan may be the key to the future energy independence of the country and its development, but it comes at a staggering cost and with doubts over its viability.
Tajikistan is an ancient land and one of the oldest states in human history, having been founded by the Samani dynasty in the 9th century, long before territories such as Great Britain or other European nations became unified states. Yet for all this, Tajikistan has remained impoverished and sidelined throughout much of its existence. Read more
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