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Jennifer Garner has praised Nicole Kidman for her baby soft skin. The 36-year-old made the comment about her fellow actress despite allegations that Kidman has had Botox injections. Speaking about the woman who is four years her senior Garner says: "Gimme a break. "If we'd only known to take care of it [baby skin], we'd all look like Nicole Kidman." Garner made gave the compliment in the May issue of Self - a US fitness magazine. She has been chosen by skincare range Neutrogena to raise sun safety awareness. .
Two Meatballs is no comic cookbook
Don't be tempted to write off Two Meatballs in the Italian Kitchen (Artisan, $35) as a joke of a cookbook. It's anything but. This volume by Pino Luongo and Mark Strausman, friends and restaurateurs in Manhattan, is nominated in the international cookbook category for a James Beard Award to be announced in June. They are in heady company, including Anne Willan, who wrote Country Cooking of France, and Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, who penned Lidia's Italy: 140 Simple and Delicious Recipes from the Ten Places in Italy Lidia Loves Most. The book is an endlessly charming debate between Luongo and Strausman, co-owners of Coco Pazzo but both with other restaurant interests as well. A native of Florence, Italy, Luongo is all about Tuscan cooking. Strausman grew up in Queens with a New York City mix of Eastern European and Italian traditions.
Springing forward to good health
ALBANY, N.Y. — Spring comforts us like an electric blanket on a cold night and lures us with its bouquet. But before jumping wildly into spring's waiting arms, health and safety issues are worth considering. Spring also ushers in insects that can bite us or make us sick, a hot sun that can burn us and even lead to skin cancer, and pollen and mold that trigger allergies and aggravate asthma. Here are some reminders to help make your spring healthy and inviting. Skin watch The American Cancer Society urges parents to slip, slop, slap to prevent skin cancer: Slip on a shirt, slop on some sunscreen (with a sun protection factor of 15 or higher) and slap on a hat. Research shows a link between sunburns in children and an increased risk of melanoma and skin cancer in later life.
Luxury health care not looking too beautiful
LOS ANGELES — It used to be a high point of Goldy Anthony's life. Every six weeks or so, as a personal morale booster, she and her girlfriends would make appointments to see a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon for facial touch-ups — plumping the lips and smoothing the frown lines on the forehead. He was "an artist," Anthony said, with Botox and Juvederm. Afterward, in a carefree mood, the ladies would dine at a popular restaurant on the Sunset Strip. No more. The subprime loan crisis, the housing slump and the general decline of the economy have claimed another covey of victims. Anthony is in the real estate business, and the cosmetic treatments — at $1,800 or more a pop — can no longer be squeezed into her budget. It's the same with others in the group. "We used to make appointments together," she said.
Couple on trial for murder of daughter
SCHWERIN, Germany: A German couple went on trial yesterday for the murder of their five-year-old daughter, who died last year of starvation after months of neglect in the family apartment.
The death last November of Lea-Sophie in the northern city of Schwerin prompted Chancellor Angela Merkel to appeal to Germans to check up on how their neighbours were treating their children.
The mother, 24, and father, 26, are accused of murder by omission and of abusing a person in care.
The mother declined to testify, but a statement from the father, read to the court by his lawyer, said: “I failed as a father." He said he had hoped the situation would come right by doing nothing.
Prosecutors say Lea-Sophie was unloved and already undernourished when the couple had a male baby in September 2007.
Business Briefs
Abraxas Petroleum Corp. paid Chairman and CEO Robert L.G. Watson $717,737 in 2007, a 57 percent increase from his $457,160 total compensation in 2006, according to the company's federal proxy filed Monday. Watson's compensation for 2007 included base salary of $339,750, a bonus of $240,100and payments by Watson and the company to his 401(k) account, along with other stock and incentive awards. Also, Watson exercised options in 2007 that netted him $385,000. In 2007, the San Antonio-based oil-and-gas firm's net income rose to $56.7 million, or $1.22 a share, compared with net income of $700,000, or 2 cents a share, for 2006. Abraxas will hold its annual meeting May 21 at the Petroleum Club of San Antonio, 8620 N. New Braunfels Ave.
Tucker comes home after 2 years
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In a place just a few miles from sandy beaches and soaring skyscrapers, white stone villas and sky-blue swimming pools, it seems the epitome of irony and injustice that over 1.5 million people would be subjected to drinking sewage-contaminated water. When there is such a fine line bordering wealth and poverty, privilege and need, how unsettling to realize that just a stone's throw away, mothers and fathers must nourish their families with poison. As if the occupier could not find one more creative way to torment his victim. The greatest outrage is that such a reality is the decided policy of the Israeli government. It is decried by the most prominent human rights and humanitarian groups throughout the world, and yet it is increasingly enhanced by Israel and shamelessly backed and justified by the US.
Education Is 'Key' To Closing Gap In Breast Cancer Mortality, Opinion Piece Says
"Breast cancer is not, and should not be, a death sentence for women, regardless of the color of their skin, insurance status or income," Karen Burns White, deputy associate director of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Initiative to Eliminate Cancer Disparities, writes in a Boston-Bay State Banner opinion piece. "But in order for us to close the gaps in our health care system, we must first understand the causes of these health disparities and then devise solutions," she adds.
White writes that it is a "disturbing reality" that "women who come from a racial and ethnic minority group, and low-income women with little or no health insurance, are less likely to get screened, more likely to be diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer, and therefore more likely to die" from the disease.
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