New York joins Games beauty parade
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New York unveiled its detailed plans for its 2012 Summer Olympics bid on Thursday, promising to beam the Olympic Rings into the night sky over Manhattan.
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Plentiful buses, helpful volunteers, and efficient security have added up to &#39;positive surprises&#39; for the host city. There are many measures by which to judge the success of an Olympic Games: records broken, medals won, dreams fulfilled or dashed.
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Fashion Wire Daily - Throngs of near-hysterical people waved meaningless pieces of white paper in the faces of security guards on the steps outside of the tents at Bryant Park on Tuesday night, February 6, the site of many shows during New York fashion week. But it wasn't enough to get them past the barricades and into the Heatherette show, which has become one of the most circus-like shows on the fashion calendar.
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The world's toy makers will make their  annual trek to New York City for the American International Toy  Fair to sell games, dolls, trinkets and almost anything else  that spells fun to children of all ages.
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New York Fashion Week opened Friday amid an international debate about too-thin models, yet the first major runway show of the event featured women of all shapes, sizes, ages and colors.
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The sports world is giving New Yorkers more than their usual quotient of agita recently.
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Japanese women may soon be tapping on the hit Nintendo DS handheld game machine for beauty tips, such as taking extra fluids and monitoring skin tones.
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Maybe it was the rain that got everyone a little down, but celebrities attending New York Fashion Week on Thursday seemed to hit on a common theme: Beauty takes work.
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Kelly Holmes holds up her Olympic medals as Britain&#39;s team parades through London. Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images. Thousands of people lined the streets of central London today to pay tribute to Britain&#39;s
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The Indo-American Arts Council brought in the Oscars with a fun party in New York City.
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Fur is back and prominently displayed  by top designers this week on New York's fashion runways, with  nary a peep of protest.
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Republican delegates converging on New York for this week&#39;s convention can expect the red carpet treatment -- private shopping days at Bloomingdale&#39;s and Macy&#39;s, batting practice at Shea Stadium with Mets baseball players, free tickets to Broadway shows
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The transformation of a popular beauty spot is being celebrated tomorrow.   Over the past year a series of improvements have been carried out at Fairy Dell at Coulby Newham, Middlesbrough.   A wildlife fun day is being held tomorrow from 11am to 3pm at the park.
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New York Fashion Week brings out Hollywood's stalwarts and its starlets. Some bold-faced names from both categories taking in the runway shows Tuesday:
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Heraklio, Greece (Sports Network) - The old faces of US women&#39;s soccer bid adieu, while the new faces introduced themselves in a gold-medal winning effort at the Athens Olympics on Thursday night at Karaiskaki Stadium.
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For many designers, New York's gala week of fashion shows represents the height of success, but plenty of aspiring fashionistas are finding their way without the bright lights and crowded catwalks.
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The developers of Naughty Gifts, a Facebook application that lets users send virtual sex toys to each other, are throwing real-world parties in New York, Chicago and San Francisco.