Educated models are in. This may sound improbable. In the film “Zoolander”, male models are portrayed as so dumb that they play-fight with petrol and then start smoking. But such stereotypes are so last year.
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There are as many domestic workers in London now as in Victorian times.
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Daily chart: American birth rates. Just over 4m babies were born in America in 2010, some 3% less than the previous year. Women aged 40-44 were the only age group that had more babies in 2010 than in 2009, and the birth rate for teenagers fell to a record low.
Daily chart: America’s costliest hurricanes. Hurricanes that tear up America’s east coast in the way Irene did are rare, but certainly not unheard of. How much damage it caused remains to be seen.
The old-line nations did not do well.
Daily chart: which economies have fared best and worst during the global financial crisis?
Breasts and Jesus: Only one obituary has ever consisted solely of those topics. Belated RIP Jane Russell
“Her mother, a travelling player-turned lay preacher, never thought sexy acting was of the devil, and neither did she. “Christians have bosoms too, you know,” she snapped at a reporter.”—
Bob Hope once introduced Jane Russell as “the two and only”. Our obituary bids her farewell.
A South Sudanese girl is more likely to die in childbirth than to learn to read and write.
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“29 countries still suffer from “alarming” levels of hunger.”
Daily Chart: how hunger has changed across the developing world.
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