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Must-Reads from Around the World: April 17, 2012
TIME (blog)
By TIME.com | April 17, 2012 | + Thinly Veiled – Following Monday's UN Security Council censure of North Korea for its recent failed rocket launch, China's Global Times issued a stern editorial — “Pyongyang must remember to heed China's advice.
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BIOLOGY News, Apr 17, 2012

BIOLOGY

KTVN Channel 2 - Reno Tahoe News Weather, Video - Kenya's Wesley Korir, Cherop ...
KTVN
I guess my biology degree kicked in a little bit." Singing religious songs as he trudged along the scorching pavement, the native Kenyan - a permanent resident of the United States - retook the lead from Levy Matebo in the final mile to cross the ...
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Eagle parents return to feed their chicks
WSLS
The Richmond Eagle Cam feed was restored with archived video, but the action you're seeing today is not live. Parents Virginia and James left the nest on Friday. Scientists don't know why. Virginia flew into the nest today about 7:30 am and fed the ...
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KTVN Channel 2 - Reno Tahoe News Weather, Video - Army sergeant receives 2nd ...
KTVN
He earned a degree in biology and was working as a martial arts instructor when he decided to join the Army. In 2010, he became a dual citizen of Brazil and the United States. He said he never expected his life to take the path it has - from an ...
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Education Portal Academy's Free Courses Lead to Low-Cost College Credit
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Education Portal Academy launched with 103 video lessons for Psychology 101. Recently, college-level lessons in biology, calculus, algebra, English literature and Western civilization were added to its offerings. There are now more than 200 lessons on ...
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Could Military Mind Control Get Out of Hand? [VIDEO]
Mashable
Jonathan Moreno, a professor of bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Mind Wars: Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century, wrote an essay published in PLoS Biology about ethical questions of utilizing mind-altering ...
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WSU to build $93M biotech hub
Crain's Detroit Business
By Tom Henderson Crain's first reported the story of Wayne State University's planned biomedical research project in its inaugural video newscast of This Week in Crain's. The newscast debuted Friday. This Week in Crain's features Southeast Michigan's ...
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Leaves guide plant's battle for sunlight
IANS
The findings may offer new ways of developing crops which would produce higher yields of foods and biofuels than existing strains, said Joanne Chory, professor and director at the Salk's Plant Biology Lab, who led the study.
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IANS
Researchers investigate how some bats survive with white-nose syndrome
Bucknell University
Two Bucknell University biologists are leading an investigation into how and why some bats survive - and others die - when exposed to the tell-tale fungus that causes white-nose syndrome. Associate Professors of BiologyDeeAnn Reeder and Ken Field have ...
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Bucknell University
Greenroofs.com's “This Week in Review” on GreenroofsTV: April 13, 2012
Greenroofs.com (blog)
by Linda Velazquez Each week you can expect to learn What's New here onGreenroofs.com through our “This Week in Review” video. Here is the transcript from April 13, 2012 from our daughter, Anjuli – click on the photo below to see the video, or here.
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Flipping the classroom: Professors move to hands-on learning
The Republic
"I thought the videos outside of class would take a lot of time. I wondered if I could keep up, if I could contribute. You're really accountable." Blake Gillespie, the chemistry professor who teaches the class, has flipped two of the three courses he's ...
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Online Tool Could Diagnose Autism Quickly, Developers Say
U.S. News & World Report
The process relies on seven questions plus a short home video of an individual child. The research team said its method could reduce by nearly 95 percent the time it takes to diagnose autism and could be easily included in routine child screening ...
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NASA's Viking robots found life on Mars in 1976, new study says
DigitalJournal.com
But scientists ignored the evidence from this experiment and concluded that though there were signs of geological activity, there were no signs of biological activity on Mars. The latest analysis by Miller et al., took a different approach based on the ...
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DigitalJournal.com
New hope in HIV prevention research: International Microbicide Conference ...
EurekAlert (press release)
Other research presented at the conference on Monday looked at the biology of mucosal transmission of HIV and rectal microbicides. In a plenary session, Betsy C. Herold of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx in the US noted that there...
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Student Artists Flavor Work Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries
The Choate News
During her junior year, Lubetkin created a music video as an assignment for biology. This fostered an interest in videography that in turn facilitated her involvement with time-lapse photography as well as stop motion videos.
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Online Tool for Faster Autism Diagnosis
PsychCentral.com
Harvard researchers, led by Dennis Wall, Ph.D., an associate professor of pathology and director of computational biology, believe they have discovered a highly accurate strategy that could significantly reduce the complexity and time of the diagnostic ...
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PsychCentral.com
Local Filmmaker Receives Second Emmy Nomination
MarketWatch (press release)
As a biologist Musburger has worked for NOAA, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the University of Hawaii, the New England Aquarium, the Pacific Marine Resource Institute, the American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, NRAS, ...
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Noel Edmonds issues Facebook plea after meeting internet 'troll'
The Guardian
Edmonds said in a video on website iwannameet that people using social networking websites should police their own behaviour more effectively before they are censored by the "state and politicians". Edmonds said in the video that he does not use social ...
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Harvard researchers develop tool that could diagnose autism in minutes
Examiner.com
Dennis Wall, associate professor of pathology and director of computational biologyinitiative at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, has been working to reduce the wait time while still providing an accurate diagnosis of ...
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Ohio Valley University to hold birding classes
Parkersburg News
Classes will focus on identification, birding gear, the basics of bird biology, conservation and backyard bird watching. Classes will consist of lectures, discussions, pictures, videos and guest speakers. The course encompasses five classroom sessions ...
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UBC student pleads guilty to taking part in Stanley Cup riot
Vancouver Sun
Four days after the June 2011 riot, a smiling Cacnio was identified in a YouTube videoleaving the smashed-up Black & Lee Formal Wear store at Richards and Granville holding an item of clothing. The next day, Cacnio issued a 3500-word public apology ...
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Has NASA already found life on Mars?
Skymania News
But NASA decided against a biological cause at the time. Now a team of scientists and mathematicians have carried out a detailed analysis of the data gathered by the experiment and compared it to the results that would be obtained from bug-free soil.
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Skymania News
IPFW group to get up close look at pandas in China
WANE
Frank Paladino, IPFW's Jack Schrey Distinguished Professor of Biology,is working to remotely track giant pandas that are being introduced from captivity into semi-wild reserves in Chengdu. This past January six pandas were released.
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Meet Thanatos: Real Life Superhero
The Market Oracle
Thanatos may be a psychological drive that is deeply rooted in humanbiology, but it is also influenced greatly by the socioeconomic and cultural environment in which that biology exists. The good news is that this unrestricted, exploitative market ...
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The Market Oracle
Longer Looks: Diagnosing Autism In Minutes; Finding New Uses For Old Drugs
Kaiser Health News
... computational biology initiative at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and associate professor of pathology at the school, combines computer algorithms along with a seven-point parent questionnaire and a home video clip ...
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A Season in Hell
Boing Boing
9 Dr. Gershon, who chairs the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at New York–Presbyterian, is the author of The Second Brain, whose cover bears a tagline worthy of Ed Wood: “Your gut has a mind of its own.” (Might I suggest, for the revised edition ...
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Boing Boing
Teacher Network newsletter: the secret of Finnish education plus teachers in tutus
The Guardian (blog)
We've had a selection of very useful resources for A-level biology students who are learning (or revising) about stem cells. Or for English teachers we have an alternative look at Robert Browning's My Last Duchess. Primary Medieval cures role play 80 ...
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The Guardian (blog)
FOX Carolina 21How to time travel with the family in Birmingham, England
WHNS Greenville
Working steam engines and nimble auto-assembling robots wowed the steampunk-loving adults, but Nina was more enthusiastic about the exhibits upstairs coveringbiology, recycling, and the future of robotics. Pulling Nina away from Thinktank's life-sized ...
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Century student athletes
Pryor Daily Times
After graduation, she plans to attend Oklahoma State University with a major in biology, then attend the University of Oklahoma Medical School and looks forward to becoming an anesthesiologist and starting a family. The assistant editor from the ...
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Researchers find new information on causes of autism
Public Radio International PRI
... Wall, director of the computational biology initiative at Harvard Medical School, may have found a method to replace the evaluations currently used. It combines computer algorithms along with a seven-point parent questionnaire and a home video clip ...
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Biology News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9 awe.sm/5jXOL 10 Scientific Distinctions It's Fun to Argue About #asechat about 16 hours ago via Timely by ...
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CELEBRITIES Gossip, Apr 17, 2012

 CELEBRITIES
Celebrities are often in debt to the tax man
USA TODAY
Celebrities and entertainers are no different, except — unlike most taxpayers — they often have huge incomes that vary wildly from year-to-year. This is a recipe for tax trouble that can follow even the most successful performers.
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VOGUE News, Apr 17, 2012


CFDA, <em>Vogue</em> Launch New Green Initiative; Find 'Most Factories Far ...
Fashionista
The CFDA and Vogue have launched a new green initiative, Clean by Design, in partnership with National Resources Defense Council, WWD is reporting. The initiative has already gained support from some of the industry's biggest players including Tory ...
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World's oldest supermodel, Daphne Selfe, 83, calls Botox and face-lifts a ...
New York Daily News
Her toothsome figure was in vogue since the country was still coping with post-World War II food rationing. No one wanted to be reminded of deprivation. She says her fellow models, although many decades younger, look up to her.
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New York Daily News
Ballgowns and big hair: Teen queens Kendall and Kylie Jenner pose for their ...
Daily Mail
By Jade Watkins They are the teenage queens of reality TV, who have graced the pages of magazines such as Teen Vogue and OK! Vogue. But Kendall and Kylie Jenner are about to appear in quite possibly their most grown-up photo shoot yet.
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Style scene: Lladro porcelain artist from Spain to sculpt at Tulsa event
Tulsa World
Courtesy By KIM BROWN World Scene Writer From printed pants to color blocking to neon pops - spring trends are all about walking on the wild side. But how do you choose which trends are for you? My philosophy has always been to take baby steps.
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World's Oldest Supermodel Dresses as Madonna for Charity
LimeLife (blog)
Does the world's oldest supermodel, seen here dressed in Madonna's iconic cone bra, hold the secret to aging gracefully? At 83, Daphne Selfe holds the title of the world's oldest supermodel, still appearing in Vogue and working the catwalks.
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'High performance' emerges in cloud offerings
Network World
By Brandon Butler, Network World As the public cloud IaaS market continues to evolve, providers are expected to add increased functionality, including high performance computing to their offerings, which is exactly what SoftLayer did today.
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'80s supermodels Cheryl Tiegs & Kelly Emberg plan Houston visit for fundraiser ...
CultureMap Houston
By Shelby Hodge From the covers of Vogue, Elle, Town & Country, Glamour and other magazines, a group of the world's most photographed models will take the stage at River Oaks Country Club on April 25th for the I Am Waters Foundation inaugural ...
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Selena Gomez's' Teen Vogue 2012 Shoot [PHOTOS & VIDEO]
International Business Times AU
Her music continues to inspire hoards of teenagers around theworld and while she's at it, she's unconsciously capturing hearts with her no-fuss looks. With her own fashion line started, an equally talented and charming boyfriend at hand, Selena still...
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International Business Times AU
How to Get a Book Deal: Tiger Mom, Diet Mom and Me
Huffington Post (satire)
In the April issue of Vogue magazine, Dara writes honestly and openly about the strict parenting methods she employed to help her overweight seven-year-old daughter slim down. Within a few weeks, she too had a book deal. What do these women have in ...
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Harsh Drug Law Leaves Vets in a Bind
The Moscow Times
Ketamine has long been used for operating on animals throughout the world, but when it came in vogue as a party drug in the late 1990s, Russia's response was to ban the substance entirely in 2003. Outcry among vets ensued, and it was reinstated for ...
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The Moscow Times
How the New York Film Academy discovered gold in the developingworld
Capital New York
By Andrew Rice LAGOS—In his small corner of the film world, Ishaq Sidi Ishaq is a giant. His 2000 movie Wasila, released on videotape and distributed in the Hausa-language market of northern Nigeria, was a local blockbuster, selling hundreds of ...
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Capital New York
Global Feminine Hygiene Products Industry
SYS-CON Media (press release)
... Ever II-12Rise of the Internet World II-12Private Labels: Gaining Favoritism? II-12Innovation is the Name of the Game II-13Thin & Absorbent: The Need of Today's Women II-13Ultra-thin Products: The Latest in VogueII-14Self-Adhesive/Beltless Napkin: ...
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Amy Davidson: What I Read
The Atlantic Wire
We regularly reach out to prominent figures in media, entertainment, politics, the arts and the literary world, to hear their answers. This is drawn from a conversation with Amy Davidson (@TNYCloseRead), a senior editor at The New Yorker and writer of ...
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The Atlantic Wire
Dream Girls and Dream Makers
Huffington Post
Both trying to make it to the pages of iconic fashion magazines like Elle,Vogue, Glamour, Italian Vogue, Essence, Ebony, to name a few. All in the name of beauty... It has been a journey worth documenting in books, and television.
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Brunette Lara Stone Is No Blonde Lara Stone
Pedestrian TV
One such fox, the spectacular Lara Stone, has almost exclusively been blonde throughout her wildly successful career in the chameleonic fashion world, but for the cover shoot of April's Vogue Turkey she's finally gone brunette, with an 80s power coif ...
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Pedestrian TV
Jurors announced for Tribeca Film Festival
Entertainment Weekly
The juries will award $175000 in the six categories of World Narrative, WorldDocumentary, Best New Narrative Director, Best New Documentary Director, Narrative Short Film Competition, and Documentary and Student Short Film Competition.
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Mexico Passes Climate Law, Only 2nd in the World
Triple Pundit
By 3p Guest Author | April 16th, 2012 1 Comment By Alexandra Stark On Friday, Mexico's House of Representatives passed a new piece of climate change legislation, making it only the second country in the world behind the UK and its Climate Change Act to ...
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Triple Pundit
CFDA Helps Kick Off Earth-Conscious Fashion Initiative
NBC New York (blog)
A new initiative from the National Resource Defense Council called Clean by Design is looking to change that with support from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) and Vogue. WWD reports that one of the man focuses of the initiative is ...
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Cleveland Evans: History of Oscar includes a king and a chimp
Omaha World-Herald
Given the name's vogue in England, British co-producers Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield probably think Oscar's a great name for a cute kid of any primate species. In ancient Irish legends, the first Oscar, grandson of the hero Finn McCool, ...
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Nike's Smart Style: Recycled Plastic Bottles Turn into New Soccer Kits
SoccerNation.com
Sounds more like a line from VOGUE magazine than a write up about soccer uniforms, but hey, we all watch these players run around the field - they might as well look great. The really cool news? Nike's commitment to their “Better World” initiative ...
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Andie MacDowell unleashes her inner devil
Stuff.co.nz
"I've had people that have come to work with me and they are dying to hear that you are bad," says the 54-year-old formerVogue model and Four Weddings and a Funeral actress. "Everybody perceives me because of my career that I'm a movie star or I'm ...
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Stuff.co.nz
Victoria's Secret models 'athletes'
Yahoo! Philippines News
"Angels are a rarer thing than the world's top-performing superstar athletes,” Ed told the UK edition of Vogue. The current Angels include the likes of Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Miranda Kerr, Doutzen Kroes and Erin Heatherton.
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TV preview: Mike Seate's 'Cafe Racer' returns
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
In 2008 he founded Cafe Racer magazine, devoted to machines that emerged in England after World War II. This week the 13-episode third season of his cable show, also called "Cafe Racer," debuts on Discovery-owned Velocity (Channel 870 on Comcast, ...
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette
How will London create the next generation of superstar designers?
London Loves Business
The Scottish fashion designer won the coveted Vogue Fashion Fund last year, giving him an extra boost of £200000 to grow his business and putting him well on his way to becoming not only a great British designer but a global phenomenon.
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The Ikea TV: Gadgets Are Furniture
BuzzFeed
Whatever the case, it's an Ikea TV. posted about 0 Ikea, possibly the world'sbiggest purchaser of fake TVs, has decided to get into the real TV business. This is the UPPLEVA (pronounced oop-lee-ev-ahh in Sweden and phonetically everywhere else).
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PHOTOS: La La Anthony Hangs Out With Anna Wintour At Knicks Game
TaleTela
La La Anthony was spotted attending a New York Knicks game yesterday with Vogue editor Anna Wintour. The La La's Full Court Life star was supporting her husband, Knicks player Carmelo, and sat next to the fashion icon throughout the game.
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TaleTela
Clear Channel Media and Entertainment Creates New, Unified Sales and Marketing ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Prior to that, Lang developed and implemented high-level marketing solutions as a branding consultant for various companies including Architectural Digest, Domino Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, Vogue and portero.com. Earlier Lang served as Vice ...
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Global Wind Energy Industry
SYS-CON Media (press release)
II-9Wind Energy Research Projects Get a Shot in the Arm II-9Europe and Asia-Pacific: Dominating the Wind Energy Industry II-10Denmark: A Model for Wind Energy Adoption II-11Developing World - An Upcoming Region II-11Growing Trend towards Off-Shore Wind ...
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Tribal DDB CEO Calls 'B.S.' on Gaming Ads
ClickZ
CZ: What would you compare in-game advertising to in the traditional marketing world? PG: I think we can compare it to other types of digital advertising. And I think we can compare it to other types of entertainment and print advertising.
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ClickZ
Caring for persons with dementia
The Hindu
Dr. Krishnamoorthy is one of four global advisors who have assisted theWorld Health Organisation (WHO) and Alzheimer's Disease International in preparing a report, 'Dementia- A public Health Priority', which was released on April 11.
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The Body Electric: One Model Reflects on the World and ... - Vogue
Yves Klein's Untitled (FC1)—the subject of a surprise announcement made this morning by Christie's, which plans to include the rarely seen painting in its ...
www.vogue.com/.../the-body-electric-looking-back-over-the-...
A WAH World - Vogue
NAIL art never fails to make an impact both on and off the catwalk, and now London's WAH Nails is taking over both the London and New York branches of the ...
www.vogue.co.uk/.../wah-nails-takes-over-the-w-hotel---new-...
World of Alexandra Shulman, editor of Vogue - Telegraph
The editor of Vogue, Alexandra Shulman, talks to Sophie de Rosee about her first job, her fear of flying and what makes a good party.
fashion.telegraph.co.uk/.../World-of-Alexandra-Shulman-edit...
Vogue Meets The World | Glitterazi
I've gotta say I'm really impressed with the way Conde Nast's Vogue has been opening up to aspiring fashion moguls...
www.glitterazi.com/2012/04/13/vogue-meets-the-world/
Kate Winslet's Vogue covers from around the world gallery - Vogue ...
See Kate Winslet's Vogue covers over the last decade.
www.vogue.com.au/.../kate+winslets+vogue+covers+from+aro...
'Rave new world' – Vogue UK | NEW YORK – TOKYO
Vogue UK april issue features 'Rave New World'. Styled by Jane How, Karmen Pedaru wears Yves Saint Laurent and Burberry Prorsum, and vintage pieces ...
www.newyork-tokyo.com/wp/.../rave-new-world-vogue-uk/
Vogue Corpses World
Cover of the month. Pag-3 Doki Doki Angels from Chile won. Styles and Subcultures-Pág. 5 Japan Idols´ Special Summer Collection-Pag. 1 2 Make up, Fashion ...
issuu.com/voguexcorpses/docs/2012april
The world's oldest supermodel: At 83, Daphne Selfe ... - Daily Mail
LIZ JONES meets the model and discovers for a woman who has spent a lifetime in front of the camera, Daphne is surprisingly without vanity.
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../The-worlds-oldest-supermodel-At-83-...
Feminist Mom in a Postfeminist World: Vogue for kids
http://www.observer.com/2012/03/controversial-vogue-story-on-diets-for-7-year- olds-article-to-become-controversial-memoir/. I read this article inVogue at the ...
feministmominpostfeministworld.blogspot.com/.../vogue-for-k...
Maryna Linchuck for Vogue Russia (May 2012) | TeeVanity's World
Maryna Linchuck for Vogue Russia (May 2012) ... Posted by TeeVanity on Apr 11 , 2012 in Alexi Lubomirski, Maryna Linchuck, Vogue Russia | 0 comments ...
www.tee-vanity.com/.../maryna-linchuck-for-vogue-russia-ma...
Lara Stone, World's Top Model, Dark Beauty in Vogue (photos ...
Lara Stone, the No. 1 model for three years running, shows why she's so alluring, with a new dark look in the Turkish edition of Vogue magazine.
www.theimproper.com/.../lara-stone-worlds-top-model-dark-b...
Abby's World: Marihenny Rivera for Teen Vogue
Marihenny Rivera for Teen Vogue: THIS WEEK IN STYLE: STYLE POST~lagos vacay: YAY OR NAY: SOLANGE FOR ... Posted by Abby'sWorld at 5:14 AM ...
www.theabbysworld.com/.../marihenny-rivera-for-teen-vogue...
Karmen Pedaru by Alasdair McLellan for Vogue UK April 2012 ...
For the Vogue UK April 2012 issue, photographer Alasdair McLellan produced the 'RAVE NEW WORLD' editorial with top model Karmen Pedaru. Aside from the ...
www.highsnobiety.com/.../karmen-pedaru-by-alasdair-mclella...
La Princessa World: Teen Vogue Goes Pint on Print Fabulous...
with Model Marihenny Rivera dressed in Proenza Scouler skirt, Burberry Skirt and wedges, Kora earrings and Stella McCartney bag. Posted by La Princessa at ...
laprincessaworld.blogspot.com/.../teen-vogue-goes-pint-on-pri...
british vogue - rave, new & world editorial - Eclectic Uniform
As I do - British Vogue comes through my letter slot each month (If its any thicker than 300 pages - Its left outside on...
www.eclecticuniform.co.uk/.../british-vogue-rave-new-world-...
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