| Brazilian carnival star takes aim at record for most plastic surgery
Brazilian model Angela Bismarchi will dance nearly nude ahead of a 300-person drum corps in next month's Carnival parade, hoping her sculpted beauty as a "percussion queen" will lead her samba group to the championship. But she has another goal in mind as well. In preparation for Rio's five-day Carnival blowout in February, she's having her 42nd plastic surgery _ closing in on the Guinness World Record of 47 surgical procedures held by 52-year-old American Cindy Jackson, who calls herself a "Living Doll" and now promotes her own skincare line. "I always was vain," Bismarchi, 36, acknowledges at the medical clinic near Rio where her plastic surgeon husband has operated on her 10 times. "And for carnival, you have to feel especially pretty." Just days before Brazil's Feb.
The more Rudy has wooed, the less he's won
It was Mitt Romney who scored the best Hillary line at the Boca debate. When Tim Russert asked him, "How would you run against Hillary and Bill Clinton in November," Mitt replied: "I frankly can't wait, because the idea of Bill Clinton back in the White House with nothing to do is something I just can't imagine. I can't imagine the American people can imagine." The audience laughed and Russert tried to pin down Mitt to see if he was implying any East Wing shenanigans. It does conjure up a disquieting image of Hillary in the Oval and Bill rambling around next door in the study right near that pantry. Romney has slyly used the word "intern" at least twice talking about Hillary, saying he had more business experience than she did and the White House was "not a place for a president to be an intern." But slick Mitt slid away from Russert, replying, "I just think that we want to have a president, not a whole -- a team of husband and wife thinking that they're going to run the country." Previewing a Republican race in the fall, he went on: "She is Washington to the core.
NHS staff steal £80m every year
How on earth are they going to sack anyone from the NHS for stealing, my wife is a nurse and i tell you having 4 kids at a very young age it would cost us a fortune in bandages and plasters if it werent for the missus and the freebies she gets from the hosi, not to mention all the photo copying we get done free and pens and pencils for the wee ones for school, nearly forgot we have been separated for six years now but still live together and im claiming,even got my own flat from the council, so if i need a break i just go there for a few days,And our little darlings get free school dinners as well.Wee just love living in the good old UK.Been here ten years now, who says there is no great in Great Britain... .
That Looks Dangerous!
This is a difficult question, because you are choosing between the values of individualism (the right to be let alone) and community (good-hearted meddling). Clearly, the mother should be wearing a helmet - not only for her safety, but to set a good example for her kids. As Boston University psychologist (and bike commuter) Catherine Caldwell-Harris put it: "Modeling is all-important. The kids may not understand that the mom should also wear a helmet. Helmets could be a kid thing, like braces. But how long will it take them to chuck their helmets and do the 'adult thing,' once they realize that their mother has succumbed to the old parent trap of 'Do what I say, not what I do'?" But people can't do everything right all the time. If other people made it their business to take us to task every time we failed to floss, save for retirement, eat five servings of fruits and vegetables every day, or keep up with developments in the Middle East, life would quickly become unbearable.
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My sister and I are best friends. She and her husband have a young teenage daughter and a 9-year-old son. I think my sister is a great mom for the most part, and my niece and nephew do very well in school and have friends, but I've recently learned some things about my nephew and my sister that disturb me. She still gives him baths, and he won't even take one unless she's there to assist him. Also, he has been sleeping in his parents' bed between the two of them. They recently downsized to a queen-size bed, and now my brother-in-law is sleeping in my nephew's bed because there's not enough room for all of them.
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Come Back, Little Sheba follows Lola, a faded beauty queen trapped in a lonely marriage to Doc (Anderson), "a recovering alcoholic on the brink of relapse," according to MTC. "When a pretty young woman (Kazan) becomes a boarder in their cluttered Midwest home, their lives are unsettled as unspoken passions rise to the surface. As the emptiness of their marriage is laid bare, can they find their way back to each other or will they be undone? This new look at William Inge's great American story is an absorbing tale of lost hopes and unfulfilled promise, told with unflinching honesty and heartbreaking power." For information about MTC, visit www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com. Click Here to Buy Tickets to This Show If you can see this, your browser does not support iframes!
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