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Saturday, 09 December 2006 |
Spain recently sent shock waves through the fashion industry when 5 bone-baring waifs were deemed too skinny to model at Madrid’s Fashion Week. So what led this country to take the first real stand against the super-thin models that have for so long dominated the industry? It may have something to do with the changing public attitude toward the fashion industry. The anti-skinny back-lash is tangled up in the thorny issue of women's perceptions of body image and a silent struggle over how to re-write the definition of an unrealistic and decidedly unhealthy 'beauty' standard which has prevailed for decades.
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Saturday, 09 December 2006 |
The first independent study to rate farms according to how much electricity they produce claims to show that wind farms south of the Scottish border are not generating as much as the Government might have assumed when it set the target of producing a tenth of Britain's energy from renewables by 2010 and 15% by 2015.
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Monday, 18 December 2006 |
The tomb of St Paul the Apostle has been found under one of Rome's largest churches and the stone coffin will shortly be raised to the surface to allow pilgrims to see it. The remains of St Paul, one of the Christian Church's most important leaders and the supposed author of much of the New Testament, have been hidden under an altar at St-Paul-Outside-the-Walls for almost 200 years. "I have no doubt that this is the tomb of St Paul, as revered by Christians in the 4th century AD," said Giorgio Filippi, the Vatican archaeologist who made the discovery.
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Monday, 18 December 2006 |
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Discovery Space Shuttle heat-shield check
The seven astronauts aboard Discovery expected to take up most of the first full day in space for the lengthy inspection for possible damage following its weekend night-time launch, the first since space shuttle Columbia's destruction in 2003.
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Saturday, 09 December 2006 |
A huge row is brewing over the future of Britain's Post Offices, amid speculation of a further tranche of closures. The Government is expected to announce, next week, that the level of its support for the network, which has fallen from more than 20,000 to around 14,500 in recent years, will be further reduced. |
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