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From Anorexia to Plus-Size: Crystal Renn Reveals Chilling Details of Life as a Model

23-year-old model Crystal Renn is currently the highest ranking plus-sized model. She has been featured in countless fashion shows and is a constant presence in fashion and style magazines – but it’s not without a price that she’s come to enjoy this kind of exposure. Aged just 13, Renn was discovere...

28 September 2009
13:41 GMT

Crystal Renn Says Plus-Size Models Are Back on the Catwalk

At 23, Crystal Renn is a size 12 and, at the same time, the highest paid plus-size model of our times. She’s been featured on the cover of Vogue and other prestigious magazines, and has modeled for Jean-Paul Gaultier and Dolce & Gabbana. However, she’s the first to admit that it’s just recently and ...

7 September 2009
15:21 GMT

Women Want Hourglass Figure, Curves

Previous polls have revealed that most women have gone on a diet at least once in their life, while they spend plenty of their time thinking of food, either how to cut down on it or to eat healthier so that pounds don’t pile on again. A recent survey comes to show that, while this still holds true, ladies are n...

22 July 2009
14:31 GMT

World's Smallest Snake Found in Caribbean Islands

A rare species of a type of threadsnake, measuring only 10 centimeters in length, was discovered recently in the Caribbean island of Barbados by Blair Hedges, evolutionary biologist at the Pennsylvania State University and researcher, also known for discovering the world's smallest species of frogs and lizards. ...

4 August 2008
02:56 GMT

Evolution Favors Large Species

With the help of data regarding the fossils of as much as 4,000 known species of mammals that lived on Earth up to 60 million years ago, Aaron Clauset of the Santa Fe Institute and Douglas Erwin of the National Museum of Natural History created one of the most accurate computer models that estimates how the body size...

18 July 2008
10:43 GMT

Fashion Tricks That Make You Look Slimmer

It's hard to believe, but a few simple tests will help you confirm it: anyone can look a lot slimmer than they really are by using a few wardrobe tricks. This is not an encouragement to throw your healthy eating plan out the window and start relying on clothes to make you look slim.Remember that while clothes wo...

13 June 2008
11:58 GMT

Deforestation Renders Frogs Smaller

It seems that the effect is not manifested only on populations, but on individuals as well. Many of the subtropical environments with high moisture levels have significantly different foliages, some being heavily covered with forests while others have almost no wood at all. Johanna Delgado-Acevedo and Carla Restrepo ...

27 May 2008
10:23 GMT

Confirmed: Yahoo Messenger Supports 2GB File Transfers

Yahoo Messenger provided file transfer functions for some time now, but users were continuously requesting larger file support in order to be able to transfer any file they want without being limited to a certain size. Some time ago, when Yahoo rolled out the latest version of Yahoo Messenger for Mac, some rumors abo...

7 May 2008
03:17 GMT

Colossal Squid Could Grow to 1,600 Pounds (750 Kg)

The analysis of the largest colossal squid ever caught (and largest invertebrate ever captured) has provided some first spectacular results - this is also the largest invertebrate species known to have ever existed. In February 2007, a New Zealand fishing crew off the coast of Antarctica (in the northern Ross Sea), t...

5 May 2008
14:06 GMT

David Beckham's Penis Gives a Tractor a Run for Its Money

Welcome, everybody, to another famous episode of "Celebrity penis talk". OK, maybe I should have given some extra thought to my opening line, but I was so excited with the news I was going to bring you that I sort of decided to make a slight concession in the "style" department. Because, you see, today is a very spec...

17 December 2007
02:48 GMT

Gmail Increases Storage Size to 9GB!

Let's do a quick test. Login in to your Gmail account and scroll down to the bottom of the page. As you can see, there is a short green line that informs you about the Gmail storage size as well as the percentage of free space. "You are currently using 109 MB (3%) of your 2887 MB," it says in my case. Well, I�...

13 August 2007
04:06 GMT

What If You Reach Gmail's Storage Limit?

At this time, Gmail offers 2861.955394 megabytes (and counting) of free storage but what happens if you use all this capacity? Is your account getting blocked or will the storage size be automatically increased? Brett Jackson, cited by Googlified, sustained that his account is 99 percent full so he has no idea what h...

8 June 2007
06:06 GMT

Men Are More Worried Than Women About Penis Size

Power is of many types, but the sexual one is extremely important. A large penis makes men feel secure, that's why most of them admitted they experience anxiety on the issue, even when well endowed and even when they have a good body image. Women, instead, appear more interested in a man's personality and l...

1 June 2007
15:56 GMT

Ya-hoo, Double Attachment Size For Gmail!

Gmail was recently updated with double attachment size for all the users, allowing them to upload files up to 20 MB. Until now, Gmail was limiting the size of the attachments to 10 MB, being similar to the free version of Yahoo Mail. However, the Sunnyvale company offers the Plus version of the mail solution with mor...

23 May 2007
05:51 GMT

Overall Brain Size Predicts Intelligence Level

A big brain means more intelligence. Even without adjusting the brain size to the body size, this remains valid, as found by a mix team from Grand Valley State University and the Anthropological Institute and Museum at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. "It's long been known that species with larger body siz...

21 May 2007
09:13 GMT

Some Dog Records

The dog is the first domesticated animal, from the time when people were just hunters-gatherers and long before the emergence of agriculture, about 18,000 years ago. It is regarded as the most devoted animal to man. The largest dogs belong to the Swiss breed Saint Bernard. The largest individual was Duke, which belon...

19 May 2007
07:15 GMT

Unlimited Storage for Yahoo Mail!

At this time, Yahoo Mail is one of the most popular e-mail solutions on the Internet because almost every user owns an account to access Yahoo Messenger, News or other products designed by the company. The most interesting announcement of this period comes from the mail team that sustained today that Yahoo Mail will ...

28 March 2007
03:57 GMT


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