Male boob jobs is plastic surgery’s fastest-growing area for a third year in a row, according to a British surgeons’ association. The number of male breast reduction operations is up 28% from last year. The association chief says this is largely because media coverage of “moobs” is making many men…
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The Origami foldable boat, with its designer. Designer Robin Benjamin has been trying to get TreeHugger’s attention for some time, he says, to shine a little bit of blogging light onto his minimalist dinghy designs. Benjamin, or Benjy as he’s known, thinks his boats – the foldable Origami, the very lightweight Stasha, and the pedal-powered Deckster – are uniquely easy to build, using minimal materials. Assembled from lightweight woods such as cedar and (unfortunately) PVC cloth, using Benjy’s dowloadable designs, the… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Brazil has released photographs of a tribe living deep in the Amazon in an effort to draw attention to their plight. Tribespeople who’ve had virtually no contact with the outside world, some painted with vegetable dye and brandishing bows, are seen looking upwards at a government plane. The tribe lives…
Continue reading …Democrat Jerry Brown won the California governor’s race despite being outspent nearly 5 to 1 by opponent Meg Whitman, according to campaign finance reports filed yesterday. The former eBay CEO, who shattered the record for personal spending by a candidate, spent $178.5 million on her campaign, of which $144….
Continue reading …Through WikiLeaks, UK Paper Says Brits Instructed Libya on How to Secure Terrorist’s Release on ‘Compassionate Grounds’
February 1, 2011 No CommentWhile it is quite clear that the officials of WikiLeaks are leftists, there are more conservative media outlets picking through its scraps. The Telegraph in the U.K. has found a scandal: that the British government
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Leonardo DiCaprio presents Christopher Nolan with the ‘Modern Master’ award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. (Feb. 1)
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He’s won five NBA titles and Olympic gold. But now Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant is trying his hand at something new. He’s funding an afterschool program to teach LA kids Chinese. (Feb. 1)
Continue reading …Just how far crazed actor Charlie Sheen veered off the rails before his hospitalization last week has been revealed by yet another porn star pal, who talks of cocaine chunks the size of tennis balls at the star’s last bender. “I’ve never seen someone so self-destructive and able to take…
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Anti-government protesters in Egypt say they will stage a march from the focus point of the recent demonstrations, Tahrir Square. They will head to the presidential palace, and some are even threatening to storm it. Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher reports.
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