Keywords: Plastic Surgery
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ellena Savage
- 22 January 2010
7 Comments
When we think of pin-up girls from the '40s and
'50s, we might assume they were desperate women who unwittingly participated in an industry that exploited them. In her new book, Madeleine Hamilton argues they were in fact 'trailblazers of the sexual revolution'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 14 January 2010
1 Comment
When celebrities die, public grief is disproportionate, because death reasserts the humanity of one who has seemed beyond
it. Jackson had become so far removed
from his humanity that the shock of his mortality is even more
profound. June 2009
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 June 2009
6 Comments
When celebrities die, public grief is disproportionate, because death reasserts the humanity of one who has seemed beyond
it. Jackson had become so far removed
from his humanity that the shock of his mortality is even more
profound.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Bronwyn Lay
- 02 December 2008
20 Comments
When Germaine Greer savaged Michelle Obama's dress, I sighed. The 'beauty' market is a challenge to feminism. In France, two extremes of fashion ideology — burqas and plastic-surgery 'mannequins' — line up to buy bread.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Cara Munro
- 08 October 2008
5 Comments
Noor, an Albanian refugee, ran a slick kitchen; a vital, sunny-windowed place. Since his accident, a piece of his skull is missing and a thick line of cable stitching closes the place where his brain was exposed.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Paul Sendziuk
- 18 June 2006
Australian responses to AIDS.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 12 June 2006
1 Comment
As researchers learn more and more about how organisms work, it’s becoming increasingly evident that our lifespan is programmed into us and can be reprogrammed.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Dorothy Horsfield
- 10 May 2006
Dorothy Horsfield investigates an initiative to help the survivors of torture
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