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Spin-off industries are also blossoming, such as Liza Elliott-Ramirez's Expecting Models, founded in July 2001. "When I started modeling 20 years ago, pregnancy was something you hid," she says. "But when I was pregnant [in 2000], I never worked so much." Business has quadrupled since the agency opened, and some of the 100 pregnant models on Elliott-Ramirez's books command as much as $10,000 a day. "It's a huge and booming market," she says. "There are new vendors every day, as they realize pregnant women are consumers who want to look good...
...apartment in a house in Oslo that was once owned by arctic explorer Roald Amundsen - so she is now plotting her next move in the place where he planned his epic journeys. The characters in The Bookseller of Kabul reflect Afghanistan's contradictions. A man of letters who hid his books from the Taliban in attics across Kabul, Khan boasts that his eight or nine thousand volumes are the world's largest collection of books on Afghanistan. Yet he's a traditionalist who presides strictly over business and family - including a teenage second wife who evicts his first wife from...
...rule more than a decade ago, Poland has become a draw for history-hungry tourists. Its capital, Warsaw, saw the debut last month of its first boutique hotel, the Rialto, situated in a prewar neighborhood just a few hundred yards from where Wladyslaw Szpilman, the hero of The Pianist, hid out after the 1944 uprising (the area is now a busy shopping district). The Rialto is lavishly outfitted, with black-and-white Art Deco furnishings from Warsaw's heyday in the 1920s. Its elevator is modeled on an Orient Express compartment, with red leather seating. There are only 45 rooms...
...says she neither hid nor promoted the age differene to her roommates...
Friends say that Law’s conservative demeanor hid a tolerant—even liberal—social and political ideology...