Word: yana
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...footwear molds designing") but consistently mention the aspirant's light skin. You see it in pharmacies selling Fair & Lovely lightening soaps and creams and--new this season--Fair and Handsome, for men. And you see it in commercials, in which India's top two models, Katrina Kaif and Yana Gupta, are part English and part Czech, respectively. Lightness is big business. Fair and Handsome's maker, Mohan Goenka of Calcutta-based Emami, says the fairness-cosmetics market has grown two-thirds in the past five years, to an annual $250 million. India's 60,000 beauty salons do a roaring...
...their three Belarus hosts were interrogated by police for 10 days before being released. Challenging the state is dangerous, but increasing numbers of Belarusians feel that the risk is worth taking. The FT was founded last March "just to be free and work freely," explains the playwright and actress Yana Rusakevich, 29, who stars in 4.48 Psychosis. The FT's members face sanctions: they may lose their jobs in state theaters or find themselves blacklisted. The plug was pulled on a play by Rusakevich at the Yanka Kupala State Academic Theater in Minsk because of her involvement with...
...YANA KLOCHKOVA The Ukrainian swimmer, dubbed "the female Phelps," was an Olympic Solidarity athlete before Sydney, where she won double gold in the women's 200-m and 400-m individual medley. Last week, she became the first woman ever to do the double again. "When you do it once, that is very important," she says. "When you win twice and make history, that stays in the record books forever." TSHERING CHHODEN and TASHI PELJOR Bhutan had never won an Olympic match until current OS athletes Chhoden and Peljor scored archery's biggest first-round upsets last week. Chhoden beat...
...teenagers are taking home a total of eight individual gold medals from the 26 solo events contested in the pool. The class of 2000 did not come to Sydney to watch and learn - they came to win. Along with the tough-talking Quann, there was Ukrainian medley swimmer Yana Klochkova, 18; Romanian backstroker Diana Mocanu, 16; Hungarian breaststroker Agnes Kovacs, 19; American sprinter Anthony Ervin, 19. And, of course, there was Australian Ian Thorpe, 17, who after his relay swims finished with three gold and two silver medals, the biggest haul of the meet...