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Scene City Her Madgesty Arrives Fashionably Late
The reason? Her Madgesty was running an hour late and Ms. Stewart had an early morning. "I have to do the 'Today' show," Ms. Stewart said. Oh, ...
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Motherlode Blog Will Parents Still Turn Down an ‘Anti-Cancer Vaccine’
"These are striking results," Thomas R. Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told The Times’s Sabrina Tavernise. "They should be a wake-up call that we need to increase vaccination rates. The bottom line is this: It is possible to protect the next generation from cancer, and we need to do it."But unless these numbers change a significant ...
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Trial Run Sunscreen No Longer Just for Sun
Josie Maran Argan Daily Moisturizer SPF 40 My favorite of the bunch, this moisturizer was lightweight and (more important, considering it's a mineral sunscreen and thus prone to chalkiness) went on clear without shiny residue. The only fault was the noticeable berry smell; while not offensive, I could do without ...
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Front Row Making the Best of a Brief Turn
Christopher Kane 's spiraling face print on matching tops and shorts is the best example of that sort -- or color. We've seen saturated colors and deft fade-outs that suggest techniques associated with digital ...
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North Korean leader Kim used luxury yacht to tour coast website
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un delivers a New Year address in Pyongyang in this picture released by the North's official KCNA news agency on January 1, ...
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Pioneering free school fails awarded lowest Ofsted grades
Michael Gove , Ofsted inspectors have published the highly critical report into the Discovery Free School, in Crawley, West Sussex, which opened in September 2011.Inspectors were severe on the primary school's leadership, saying its governors failed to grasp the school's "serious shortcomings", while school leaders "believe the school is far better than it is".The ...
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In sports writing the action’s moved away from columns
Bryan Curtis writes about the slow decline of The New York Times’ Sports of the Times column. But more than one column in one newspaper, Curtis is really writing about a broader shift in what content is valuable in an online ...
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Reality TVs best dressed Final 4
There were nailbiters — Nicole Richie best Tyra Banks by just 23 votes — and there were blowouts — Shakira trounced Mariah ...
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Cost an obstacle to seeing GP
People living in Perth's southern corridor of Kwinana, Rockingham and Mandurah rate the worst in the country for putting off attending a GP or dentist because of cost.A review by the National Health Performance Authority found that in the Medicare Local of Perth South Coastal 34 per cent of adults avoided going to the dentist because of the expense, the highest rate in Australia.The area ...
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The retail empires strike back Can new technology lure us back to the high street
The high street has been bruised and battered by online firms but in-store technology is helping to enliven the retail experience, as Rhodri Marsden ...
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Motoring review Porsche Cayman S
You have to be a certain kind of person to buy a bright yellow Porsche. More precisely, you have to be the sort of person who wants to be noticed. You could paint the new Cayman S beige and still get noticed, though - it's a beautiful concoction of aluminium and hot-formed steel with a short, sloping front end, beautiful lines and a tight rear. So why gild the lily and paint the latest ...
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A week with Bosch Indego lawnmower
This little green goblin is the Bosch Indego, an automatic lawnmower. Robochop, if you will. It pootles around your garden cutting the grass, then when it's done it tootles back to its docking station (or nest, as I like to think of it) and recharges itself. If it bumps into anything on its way, it will stop, then chart another course away from the branch/barbecue/bird bath in its path. I ...
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Bull Durham turns 25 -- and whats your favorite sports movie
The other day, I was picking out some movies to give to my nephew, who just graduated from high school and who hinted that he’d like, as a gift from me, some great DVDs for his collection. I was having fun choosing some classics that I thought he’d like . . . a little Hitchcock here, a little Kubrick there . . . and then I thought I should include a sports movie, as he loves sports. ...
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Kate Moss Naomi Campbell came to John Gallianos aid after infamous rant and backlash
Supermodels Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista helped disgraced fashion designer John Galliano get back on his feet after his infamous anti-Semitic rant and subsequent stint in rehab. Galliano's fall from grace came after he was arrested for hurling racist comments at a couple during a night out in France in 2011, which cost him his job as head designer at Christian Dior later ...
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British and Irish Lions 2013 George North passes fitness test to provide huge boost ahead of first clash against Australia
The Lions have received a massive confidence boost following yesterday's loss to the Brumbies with the news that George North will be fit for the opening Test against Australia on ...
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T Magazine On View | An All-American Roadside Attraction in West Texas
Over the next few months, motorists speeding through the West Texas desert on Highway 90, just outside the arts town of Marfa, will encounter an unexpected roadside attraction: a white neon Playboy logo hovering above a matte-black 1972 Dodge Charger perched at an 18-degree angle atop a concrete plinth. Playboy Marfa, as it’s being called, is the first in a series of art projects ...
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Group gives $100K for sports complex
The Daily Journal reports The Bailey & Wood Financial Group donated the money to help pay for somewhere between 700 and 1,000 visitor-side seats. The money will also be used to build a pole barn for baseball and softball teams. In return, the financial company will get non-exclusive advertising on the scoreboards. The deal was accepted by the Clark-Pleasant school board Tuesday ...
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Cynthia Bower omitted from report into Cumbrian hospital baby deaths
Bower announced her resignation as chief executive of the CQC in February 2012 after the organisation had come under fire. Photograph: Teri ...
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Franklin Bash and...dragons
who joins the law firm as name partner Rachel King ,in tow. ';She's come in to sort of kick our asses a little bit,'; Mark-Paul Gosselaar explains. ';Because we became equity partners last year, and because Stanton [Malcolm McDowell] is sort of on our side of a lot of things, we just needed somebody to push back against the boys. So that's what she brings this year: She ...
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Movies to coach Little League by
baseball — a hard truth that I’ve discovered this season with a child playing Little League. First off, talking to a gaggle of 7-year-olds for more than 30 seconds is nearly impossible. I rarely can string three sentences together before one of the players interrupts to tell me about the bee that stung him yesterday, or quizzes me on the name of his new hamster. The more they ...
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Video Is obesity a lifestyle issue or a disease
Dr. Arya Sharma, Scientific Director of the Canadian Obesity Network, joins Hannah Sung to discuss the American Medical Association's announcement that they are newly classifying obesity as a disease and whether this type of labeling affects the health care of overweight ...
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Sports Queens Revive Hopes
Mombasa Region 2-0 in a tough girls' hockey match to revive their hopes of reaching a respectable position in the ongoing Pepsi National Secondary Schools Championships at Nakuru Boys High ...
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G8 Open Data Charter will increase transparency and fuel innovation
Open Data Charter : five principles to ensure that government data is made freely available in an effort to spur both transparency and ...
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Police cells holding more than 9000 mentally ill people a year
police custody despite official guidance saying such powers should only be used in exceptional circumstances, watchdogs say.The official investigation of the watchdogs finds that some people being detained are as young as 14. The majority in a 70-strong sample of those detained said they were held after either attempting suicide or self-harm, or indicating that they were thinking of doing so.The ...
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The science of sport Exploring ways to be better faster and stronger
Expectations are growing for our top athletes and cutting-edge sports technology is helping them achieve their goals. Science reporter Jamie Morton tours an Auckland facility taking our high-flyers from the lab to the podium. Marathon runner Scott Winton (right) gets his aerobic fitness tested by Andrew Kilding at the institute. Photo / Greg BowkerThe young cyclist pumps her legs upon the pedals ...
Kuala Lumpur Spotlight
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City's major raw water project
It’s been in the pipelines for several years, but finally the Pahang-Selangor raw water transfer project has found its feet with an official groundbreaking ceremony held in April of 2010, the facility, when completed, will enable a massive region of the country, including Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Putrajaya to cope with increasing demand for raw water treatment from industrial, residential and tourism sectors of the economy.
The raw water treatment project is a massive undertaking: a pipeline is to be constructed run from Sungai Semantan in Pahang to the Hulu Langat water treatment facility in Selangor, it will be 44.6 kilometers long, the longest tunnel of its kind in Asia and the sixth largest in the world. When operating at maximum capacity, over 1,800 litres of raw water will be pumped to Selangor and treated for conversion to fresh water, according to Kuala Lumpur news media. Read more
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