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  • Beyonce creates fashion range for website

    Singer Beyonce Knowles has created her own fashion range named Beyonce Boutique for a fashion rental website. She has come up with designs for Rent the Runway, which lets people hire designer wear at an affordable price. "Making women feel confident and beautiful is something I've always been passionate about. That's why joining forces with Rent the Runway was so organic," femalefirst.co.uk ...

  • Homeland Security bulletin warns 3-D printed gun plans may be impossible to access

    The menace of 3-D printed guns has already spread far and it will be 'impossible' to stop the manufacturing of more guns, an intelligence bulletin has revealed. The Department of Homeland Security has warned that the use and passage of 3-D printed guns are likely to spread beyond regulations and checkpoint restrictions, posing 'public safety risks' to an uncontrollable extent, Fox News ...

  • New light rocket Angara ready for launch

    Russia's first light-class modification Angara 1.2PP carrier rocket is ready for its maiden launch, its manufacturer Khrunichev Center said. The first Angara will be sent to the Plesetsk space centre in northern Russia later this month, the manufacturer said in a statement, but did not give a precise launch date. Meanwhile, the first heavy-class Angara-A5 has been completed and will soon be ...

  • Manufacturing slump paces Dominican Republic 0.3 1Q growth

    Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic's economy grew barely 0.3% in the first quarter, much slower than forecast, the Central Bank announced Friday. In its preliminary report the monetary authorities noted that in the first quarter of 2012 the economy grew 3.8%, 4.3% in 2011 and 7.5% in 2010. Key sectors with a strong impact on employment have fallen thus far this year, including retail ...

  • China manufacturing sees 1st fall in 7 months HSBC

    BEIJING -- Manufacturing activity in China contracted in May for the first time in seven months, HSBC said Thursday, in another sign of the weakness of recovery in the world's second-largest ...


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Notes on a Scandal

Notes on a Scandal

Notes on a Scandal is a lurid psychodrama cleverly dressed up in art house garb. It plumbs the recesses of pathetic and sordid human behavior with a wry combination of gleeful deliciousness and arty pretension, making it the movie equivalent of a grocery store scandal r ... ...

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  • Reporters notebook Going undercover inside a Bangladesh garment factory

    (CBS News) DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Getting inside a garment factory in Bangladesh isn't easy. It's an enormous industry. There are more than 4,000 factories, employing an estimated 4 million people. Garments and textiles make up about 80 percent of Bangladesh's export ...

  • Fashion label dressing for US success

    The founders of Stolen Girlfriends Club say a supply agreement the local fashion label has secured in the United States has the potential to open a lot of doors for the brand in the world's biggest economy. The Auckland-based company - founded in 2005 by Marc Moore, Dan Gosling and Luke Harwood - has created an exclusive women's clothing line for Urban Outfitters, a Nasdaq-listed ...

  • Fashion watch Hamas won’t allow Western styles that lower ‘standards of manhood’

    Special to WorldTribune.com GAZA CITY -- Hamas has ordered security agencies to quell Western fashion in the Gaza Strip. Officials said the Interior Ministry has outlined standards of dress for young Muslims that rule out Western styles or haircuts. They said the ministry has recruited both the police and security forces for the ...

  • Manufacturers turn up heat on LME over metals warehousing

    Fri May 24, 2013 1:11pm EDT * Complaints about queues, high surcharges gather pace * EC competition watchdog has received enquiry findings * US group says could withdraw support for LME contract By Susan Thomas LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Big industrial metals users are leaning heavily on the London Metal Exchange (LME) to fix its controversial metal storage system, although they have limited ...

  • Movers Shakers Friday’s movers Abercrombie Sears not in fashion

    Bootstrapping for start-ups When start-up financing is scarce, entrepreneurs should look to bootstrapping. Angel Investor Dale Murray explains what it is and how to attract ...

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