Bidder for New York racing franchise touts $1.8 billion investment
USA Today - You should go to a race track and think, ‘This is a place of beauty,’ ” O’Farrell said. The franchise proposes allowing a private group to operate the Aqueduct, Belmont and Saratoga tracks. It also advocates video slot machines at Aqueduct and Belmont
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All change at Boots as health campaign helps to push up sales
Times Online - Boots, the health and beauty retailer, aims to double the number of customers taking part in its new year s resolution campaign called Change One Thing. When it was launched a year ago, the initiative boosted sales of nicotine replacement patches by
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Music Video Shot In Brunei For MTV
BruDirect - around the Sultanate filming sites at Kampung Ayer by water taxi, the vicinity of Empire Hotel & Country Club, and even at the Gadong Pasar Malam, for what is soon to be released as a music video for MTV which features Brunei’s beauty
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Korean ‘geishas’ serve as role models
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Their nickname is Haeohwa — a word combining the three Chinese characters for “understand,” “word” and “flower,” objectified as a symbol of indigenous beauty. Lee Don-soo, an art historian who has staged an exhibition of gisaeng photos from his
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More and more beauty products are going organic
Detroit News - Check ingredients. The word “organic” on a beauty product may not mean much because the industry isn’t regulated. Any product can claim to be “organic,” but if the word appears high on the ingredients list, you may be getting what you pay for. Test
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Reality TV’s willing and able
News.com.au - IT’S a beauty contest complete with a swimsuit round. But all the contestants have a disability in the latest reality format to sweep through ratings-hungry broadcasters. Contestants must display a “handicap visible to the eye” in Miss Ability , a
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