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...hours before she is to appear on stage, she and her fellow contestants learn that the promised rehearsal room is not available. Worse still, the pageant organizer admits that the official hair stylist may not be able to fit everyone in. Chitombo rolls her eyes and makes a snap decision: she'll travel 25 km to her home village and collect $40 from her mom to pay for a killer coiffure. Such travails might put off more pampered competitors, but Chitombo is just happy to be here. For the past three years she has been living with the virus that...
...like a girl - 2-cm-long nails brightly buffed and filed to an elegant curve. Ejiofor has just come from rehearsals for his latest project, The Kinky Boot Factory, a comedy in which he plays Lola, a sassy transvestite cabaret star. Press-on nails, his makeup team tell him, snap too easily, so Ejiofor's grown his own, acquiring some useful expertise in applying cosmetics in the process. "I've learned that wet nail polish gets everywhere," he says. "And you should always do your eye makeup first." This stage-trained son of Nigerian refugees first turned heads...
Riding High DENMARK The center-right coalition of Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen won a second four-year term in office, securing the support of 94 of 179 parliamentary seats in snap elections. Rasmussen, who called the poll to capitalize on his government's popularity, campaigned on a platform...
Talk radio and local TV interview requests were among the most common communiques he received during the media frenzy. Bigger fish wanted to snap up Corker’s story as well: movie producers including the National Lampoon contacted him, and one company even suggested creating a reality television show centering around the search for Corker’s replacement. Though the College will name its new campus life fellow later this semester, the search will not be televised...
...Harvard professor with a passion for studying everyday phenomena, including how worms wriggle, flags flap, and skin shrivels, has co-authored a report research explaining how the Venus flytrap is able to snap shut almost instantaneously...