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Restoring Paloma's Faith
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An honourable Glastonbury mention must go to singer, actor and consummate clothes-horse Paloma Faith, 24, who spent much of the final day of the festival standing outside the press tent in a gold lamé arrangement topped by preposterous green headgear and a parasol.(read
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Category : Art
Seen And Heard At Comic-con 2010
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Comic-Con 2010 is in the books, and this year's event was another celebration of all things geeky — and many that are not. TV Guide Magazine patrolled the halls and hallways of the San Diego Convention Center, ducking light sabers, caped crusaders and pen stabbings to file these tidbits.(read
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Category : Social Community
The Health Of The Ocean
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Forty years ago no one was concerned about the health of the ocean , in spite of the fact that many fisheries were being overharvested , toxic wastes were being dumped in the sea, and developers were beginning to seriously disrupt coastlines. People just didn ' t understand, not did they care.(read
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Category : Environment
How Long Will It Keep?
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How long will those eggs keep in the fridge? Can leftover picnic foods sit out in the sun for more than an hour? Does frozen chicken have an expiration date? Answers to burning questions like these are but a mouse click away, thanks to a clever website called StillTasty.com.(read
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Category : Food, Cooking and Drink
Egyptian Islamists Attempt To Draw A Veil Over 'salacious' Masterpiece
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How come the Muslim world – at its moments of greatest crisis – will invariably manage to deflect its energies into the most preposterous cultural, historical or religious questions? Egyptian Islamists have said they want to censor "salacious" passages from the One Thousand and One Nights, one of the Muslim world's priceless literary works.(read
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Category : Religion
Childhood Shmobesity
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The Obamas are worried about their daughters getting fat. In November 2008, Barack got a promotion and mentioned to the media that, a couple years earlier, he was concerned that Malia had become “a little chubby.†A later visit to a pediatrician convinced Michelle that both Malia and her sister Sasha needed to slim down.(read
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Category : Social Community
Flotilla Deaths Were A 'mistake', Says Idf Report
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The killing of nine Turks in a raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla last month followed intelligence and planning "mistakes", according to an Israel Defence Force (IDF)-commissioned report. At the same time, the report – full details of which are not being published – defends the use of live ammunition by commandos and congratulates them on their "professionalism, bravery and resourcefulness" during the operation on board the Mavi Marmara.(read
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Category : Others
Installations Are Not Built To Last
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I found myself thinking about posterity the other day, while watching a carousel of china dogs self-destruct. The provoking object was Joana Vasconcelos's artwork Passarelle (Catwalk), part of her exhibition at the Haunch of Venison Gallery in London and – in an exhibition that put up some stiff competition in this category – by some stretch the most calculatingly perverse object there.(read
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Category : Others
A Government Of Straight, White, Privately Educated Men
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Analysis by The Independent of the social origins of members of the coalition Government – the most extensive exercise of its kind – reveals that one-tenth of all the ministers in the Government attended just one public school: Eton. Two-thirds of ministers were educated partly or entirely outside the mainstream state school system, and one in five went to one of the old established top public schools.(read
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Category : Education
We'll Be Better Than Reds, Says City Hatchet Man
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It is 42 years since Manchester City were last crowned as the English top-flight champions yet, according to their new signing Aleksandar Kolarov, there is little danger of the club getting anywhere near the point of raising their bat to the pavilion for the most undesired of half-centuries.(read
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Category : Sports
