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...first black supermodels. Her appearance on the cover of Ladies' Home Journal in 1968 broke the color barrier at mainstream women's magazines, and she went on to grace the covers of Cosmopolitan, Essence and Life. While she was not the only successful black model from that era (there were others, among them Donyale Luna), she was the first dark-skinned model to enjoy such a measure of mainstream success. (Read about the role of race in modeling...
...both. While the ARA and Congress hashed out a compromise that salvages each automobile's drive train, ruining the engine still kills about 30% of a vehicle's recycling value. For recyclers, who pay upwards of $700 to process each vehicle before they know the condition of the model they're getting, the provision eliminates much of the upside. "It's almost like mining for gold," Wilson says. "There's a lot of sifting, and maybe it's worth it for the recycler, but maybe...
...most famous presidential birthday bash is undoubtedly JFK's 45th in 1962, featuring Marilyn Monroe's sultry serenade, "Happy birthday, Mr. President." The event fueled speculation that the Chief Executive and the Playboy centerfold were having an affair. It also was reportedly the model for the 50th birthday party of another philandering President, Bill Clinton - a Radio City Music Hall gala that raised $10 million for the Democratic Party in 1996. "For obvious reasons, White House officials said, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had something a little different in mind," the Baltimore Sun reported at the time...
Take, for example, Nokia's new 2730 model, which will be available later this year for just over $110. The 3G device might not have a touchscreen or a swish keyboard, but with access to Ovi Mail, Nokia's free e-mail service, it's designed to give thousands of consumers in emerging markets their "first Internet experience," says Credit Suisse's Garcha. Ovi Mail was conceived specifically for consumers with limited PC access, and almost all the 350,000 accounts registered since the service's launch last December have been created on Nokia phones, not on computers...
Bill Koegler, vice president of operations, thinks this model could be applied to any park. "We're taking the university approach - a mix of donations and pay for services," he says. Down the road, he adds, he wouldn't be averse to building an endowment with financial sponsorships of certain existing amenities in the park: restrooms, benches or holes of golf...