Posts Tagged Beauty and fashion

Pimlico infield safe and sound for Preakness

Racing fans wait for the next horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. The 138th Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

BALTIMORE (AP) — In front of one stage, a mother propped her young child on her shoulders while watching the country music group Florida Georgia Line.

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Plans languish for overhaul of NYC’s Penn Station

This May 9, 2013 photo shows evening rush hour commuters inspecting the train information board inside Penn Station in New York. The busiest passenger train station in the United States, gateway to the biggest city in the nation, is a 1960s-era, utilitarian labyrinth built in what is essentially the basement of Madison Square Garden. Two decades after ambitious plans were unveiled to improve Penn Station while expanding it into the massive Beaux Arts post office building across the street, there are few visible signs of change.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

NEW YORK (AP) — The busiest passenger train station in the United States is a 1960s-era, utilitarian labyrinth in the basement of a basketball arena.

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Geneva auction sells nearly $5M of actress’ jewels

This is Tuesday, May 7, 2013 file photo of a model holds a yellow 74.53 carat diamond  from the late 19th century during an auction preview at Sotheby's in Geneva, Switzerland. The auction house  sold off the 74.53-carat fancy yellow diamond that once belonged to Ahmad Shah Qajar, the shah of Persia from 1909 to 1925 and the last ruler of the Qajar dynasty. Its sale for nearly $3 million set both an auction record and a record price per carat _ an eye-popping $40,061 per carat _ for a fancy yellow diamond.   (AP Photo/Keystone/Jean-Christophe Bott, File)

GENEVA (AP) — A huge diamond unearthed in Botswana commanded an unearthly price of $26.7 million from Christie’s auction house Wednesday amid the spring ritual of well-heeled bidders flocking or phoning in to Geneva’s luxury sales.

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Jolie: From girl with tattoos to girl with a cause

FILE-  In this Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011 file photo, actress Angelina Jolie poses for a portrait to promote her directorial debut of the film "In the Land of Blood and Honey"  in New York. Jolie authored an op-ed for Tuesday’s May 14, 2013 New York Times where she writes that in April she finished three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts as a preventive measure. She says she’s kept the process private but is writing about it now with hopes she can help other women. (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri, File) ITALY OUT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In her bad girl days, Angelina Jolie’s body was a billboard for tattoos that said such things as “Billy Bob.”

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Kenya co. turns old sandals into colorful objects

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In a story May 8 about artisans in Kenya who turn old sandals into art objects, The Associated Press included two paragraphs that closely paralleled the wording of an earlier story on the subject by the Voice of America. Inclusion of such material should have been attributed to VOA.

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