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100 Amazing Nail Art - Manicure Ideas We women adore fashion and style. Fashion comes in clothes, shoes, makeup, fancy accessories, styles the way we carry things and hairstyles. We enjoy dressing up, getting ready and styling our hair. Most Anticipated: The Great 2012 Book Preview 2012 is shaping up to be another exciting year for readers. While last year boasted long-awaited novels from David Foster Wallace, Haruki Murakami, and Jeffrey Eugenides, readers this year can look forward to new Toni Morrison, Richard Ford, Peter Carey, Lionel Shriver, and, of course, newly translated Roberto Bolaño, as well as, in the hazy distance of this coming fall and beyond, new Michael Chabon, Hilary Mantel, and John Banville. We also have a number of favorites stepping outside of fiction. Marilynn Robinson and Jonathan Franzen have new essay collections on the way. A pair of plays are on tap from Denis Johnson.

Ignobel Indians Several Indians have collected Ig Nobel prizes over the years, awarded for seemingly ridiculous scientific research Won the 2002 Ig Nobel prize for Mathematics for his 1990 paper, ‘Estimation of the total surface area in Indian Elephants’ For KP Sreekumar, winning the Ig Nobel was an anticlimax. Most winners benefit from the never-before spotlight on their work that the prize guarantees, but Sreekumar didn’t exactly get covered in glory. Instead, his work became a quiz question. On a contest aired on TV, the quizmaster asked what the most foolish study ever to emerge from Kerala was.

'Calvin and Hobbes' Creator Bill Watterson's College Comics digg_url = ‘ tweetmeme_url = ‘ tweetmeme_source = ‘comicsalliance’; It’s hard to believe it’s been ten fifteen years since the last Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, but it has (deal with it). Hair DIY: Favorite Way to Wear 'Em My bangs are getting long. I've promised myself that I won't cut them until after the summertime heat subsides, so I find myself pinning them a lot. Here is my current favorite way to them: See what I mean? Long. Bobby pins to the rescue! Books of the Year 2011 - Magazine The Atlantic’s literary editor picks the five best of the crop. The Hare With Amber Eyes Edmund de Waal FSG This rueful family memoir is also a vividly episodic history of 19th- and 20th-century Europe, and a plangent consideration of the pleasures and fleetingness of aesthetic and familial happiness. Letters to Monica Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite Faber and Faber

Melencolia I The engraving measures 24 x 18.8 cm.[1] Interpretations[edit] Detail of the magic square National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 National Geographic is currently holding its annual photo contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30. For the past nine weeks, the society has been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to vote for them as well. National Geographic was kind enough to let me choose among its entries from 2011 for display here on In Focus. Gathered below are 45 images from the three categories of People, Places, and Nature, with captions written by the individual photographers. [45 photos]