Oct 01, 2009 -
The cavernous photography studio in New York City is bustling with fashion assistants, hair and makeup stylists, and models chatting in white terry robes. All typical on a photo shoot, but when the robes come off, you see what's different. Kate Dillon, Ashley Graham, Amy Lemons, Lizzie Miller, Crystal Renn, Jennie Runk and Anansa Sims -- some of the top plus-size models working today -- have beautiful curves, round shoulders, belly rolls and lots of other womanly stuff many of us see when we look in the mirror.
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Sep 03, 2009 -
Children with older fathers have a significantly increased risk of having autism, a study has concluded.
The UK and US researchers examined data on 132,271 children and said those born to men over 40 were six times more at risk than those born to men under 30.
They said the study in Archives of General Psychiatry was further proof men also had "biological clocks".
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Sep 29, 2008 -
Coastal wind farm project means jobs, investor tells fishermen
By RICHARD DEGENER Staff Writer, 609-463-6711
Published: Sunday, September 28, 2008
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/186/story/270087.html
ATLANTIC CITY - Michael Mohr isn't ready to give up captaining a surf clam boat just yet, but he sure likes a proposal by a group of New Jersey fishermen to build a wind farm off this casino resort.
Mohr, sitting in the wheelhouse of the Lady Brittany at Barney's Dock on Saturday, pondered the possibilities.
"I think a lot of us are interested in it.
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Jan 15, 2009 -
The Importance of India
Bush deserves credit for boosting relations with New Delhi.
by Duncan Currie
01/15/2009 12:00:00 AM
BILL EMMOTT, a former editor of the Economist magazine, has written that George W. Bush's "bold initiative" to strengthen U.S.
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Apr 14, 2009 -
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Time for Congressional Black Caucus to Disband?
By Dennis Prager
Last week, seven members of the Congressional Black Caucus - Reps. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., Melvin Watt, D-N.C., Michael Honda, D-Calif., Laura Richardson,, D-Calif., Bobby Rush, D-Ill., Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, and Emanuel Cleaver II, D-Mo.
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Mar 31, 2009 -
Three Mile Island -- Thirty Years After
By William Tucker
On March 28, 1979, a minor valve failed in the cooling loop of a power plant on a sand bar in the middle of the Susquehanna River and the world became familiar with the name "Three Mile Island."
The country's first major nuclear accident was perhaps the greatest psychodrama of the era. For almost a week the world stood still and focused on Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Feb 23, 2009 -
The Associated Press
updated 5:18 p.m. CT, Sun., Feb. 22, 2009
FORT BLISS, Texas - As soldiers stream home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the biggest charity inside the U.S.
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Feb 11, 2009 -
Lana TurnerLana Turner (February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995) was an Academy Award-nominated American film and occasionally television actress. On-screen, she was well-known for the glamour and sensuality she brought to almost all her movie roles. Off-screen, she was-well known for her stormy and colorful private life including seven husbands, numerous lovers, and a famous murder scandal.
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Dec 28, 2008 -
What goes up must come down. Last year at this time, we commented on the rise of irrational exuberance. In 2008, the world landed with a loud and well-documented thud.
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Sep 03, 2008 -
REPORTED FALSEHOODS AND SMEARS AGAINST GOV. PALIN’S FAMILY AND HISTORIC CANDIDACY:
• Liberal Bloggers Questioned Whether Gov. Palin's Fifth Child Was Actually Bristol Palin's Child.
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