by Abigail Pesta ….August, 2012 Model and photographer Indrani spent her childhood in a 300-room palace in India. She turned that ancestral home into a school—and is fighting to give girls a better future. By Abigail Pesta. Indrani visits students at her ancestral palace turned school in India. She grew up in a crumbling ancestral…
Meaning of Jessica Ennis, the Face of the London Games By June Thomas Posted Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, Team GB’s Jessica Ennis shows off her gold medal. Photo by Alex Grimm/Getty Images for adidas. For all the excitement of Mo Farah’s Saturday night 10,000-meter triumph, and as impressive as it was to watch Bradley Wiggins…
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Gallery Going Gets Social: TechCrunch ?s ArtSpotter TechCrunch, the start-up news site, has a crush on ArtSpotter, the app that is meant to help gallery goers find works they like. The app has done a pivot, as they say out West, and become more social. The new focus is about discovering art through the…
Lots of powerful relationships are made at the Olympics. But perhaps none is more significant than the swimmers that together make Phelpte. Feel the love. 1. Relationships can develop a push-pull quality when partners are in the throes of an Olympic bromance AND fiercely competitive at the same time. Here Lochte may pull away, but…
Last week it became clear that, as regards the euro, political Europe has overstepped the limits of its power. The joint statement by France’s President François Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel saying that “Germany and France are deeply committed to the integrity of the Eurozone” and are “determined to do everything to…
Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, And Daniel Day-Lewis Come Out As Gay Also Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, Brian Williams, Meryl Streep, And LeBron James July 25, 2012 …. A small sampling of famous American public figures who came out of the closet this week. LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK, LONDON, PARIS, CHICAGO, BOSTON, MIAMI,…
A Bollywood starlet has become the first Indian woman to pose nude for Playboy, sparking a wave of criticism in her home country where the magazine is banned. Sherlyn Chopra, 28, will appear in the November issue. However, a series of teasing interviews has provoked a round of condemnation from women’s rights activists who…
Fencer Mariel Zagunis Will Carry U.S. Flag In Opening Ceremony Mariel Zagunis has been named the U.S. flagbearer for the London 2012 Opening Ceremony. Here, Zagunis celebrates a win in the individual sabre final at the Pan American Games last year. Mariel Zagunis, the two-time gold medalist in sabre, has been named the…
Watching the crooks: Researcher monitors cyber-espionage ring Good guys are keeping an eye on large espionage and botnet campaigns that are stealing corporate secrets from government and private industry and money from peoples’ bank accounts. by Elinor Mills July 25, 2012 2:00 PM PDT This graph shows the confirmed espionage malware samples researcher Joe Stewart…