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POPSJuliapatriciaroy gives ClipCast a glowing review Who can argue with Julia...she has to be right! :) Julia is definitely someone i have a great deal of respect for. In my mind, she's ahead of the curve when it comes to fully grasping the powerful social implications of the web. Having her think so highly of clipmarks really means a lot to us. Thanks Julia!
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POPSNatural African beauty - the Miss Authentica contest
From the slideshow captions: "African women, don't lighten your skin. It's a gift from God." These lyrics are a line from a song specially commissioned for a beauty competition with a difference in Ivory Coast. Only women with natural, untreated skin - confirmed by skin experts - can enter the competition which goes by the name, Miss Authentica. The organisers hope to encourage women to stop using dangerous skin-bleaching products…and instead celebrate the beauty of their natural skin. Skin-bleaching is big business in much of Africa. Proof of this are the many posters of smiling, fair-skinned women holding up the latest pots and tubes of skin-whitening creams that adorn the continent's cities…75% of women in Ivory Coast use skin-whitening creams of some sort. Many continue to use the bleaching products despite being aware of the dangers. One of the most common ingredients is hydroquinone, which has been banned in some countries because of claims that it is carcinogenic.
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POPSTiger in happier times Pity it all went wrong for him! I know he did wrong, but so do many people and they don't suffer walking the gauntlet like he has!
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POPSAushwitz sign stolen Who on earth would do this? That is a memorial to all those that died there. Some people in this world are extremaly sick!
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POPSRomantic Movies That Stir Our Emotions I am a hopeless romantic . Of course the movies are a wonderfull experience for our entertainment but in real life like a garden we need to continue to work on our relationships for them to contiue to bear fruit. In the movies too as in life it doesnt all work out as in the 'The Way we Were" (the chemistry between Redford and Streisand is undeniable), ultimately these differences prove too much for them to overcome. “The final scene gets me every time: Katie and Hubbell run into each other years after they've split. He has a glamorous new woman on his arm. She tells him, wistfully, 'Your girl is lovely, Hubbell.'"