| SAG Awards 2008: Red Carpet Commentary
Her Desperate Housewives co-star Teri Hatcher went for even slimmer for her gown but came off looking a bit bridesmaid-ish (that hair style really suits her though). Sticking with the Housewives Nicolette Sheridan seemed to be honing her inner porn-star - all blonde hair and breasts - in an otherwise pleasant but uninteresting black dress, while you know Marcia Cross spent the whole evening readjusting her gown to avoid starring in her own little topless show. The teal colour looks gorgeous on her pale skin and contrasting with her red hair though and the quality of the fabric looks divine. .
Surgeon at loss after West's death
Dr. Jan Adams, the plastic surgeon who operated on Kanye West's mother before she died, said his practice has been hard hit by bad publicity following her death. The Middletown native, who briefly appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" Tuesday, said that fallout from Donda West's death had affected his practice "horribly ... it's almost destroyed." Adams hosted the series "Plastic Surgery: Before and After" and has also appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "Entertainment Tonight." He sells a line of skin care products and has written two books on plastic surgery. .
Culture of education
He's setting a new target to eliminate within the next five years what are now dubbed failing schools. All schools, he'll say, should meet the target of getting at least 30% of their pupils achieving 5 A*-C grades at GCSE including English and Maths. To achieve this he'll urge councils to use both market and state solutions - turning failing schools into academies or bringing in private sector support or simply closing them down. He will pledge to do more to recruit the brightest and the best to be teachers and to increase the level of parental engagement and interest in a child's learning. Whilst pledging to raise the aspiration of the school system Mr Brown will argue that every child should aspire to an apprenticeship if not to higher education. There will, he will promise, be up to £15,000 to compensate employers for the costs of that training.
Hi-tech husbandry
CHICAGO c When a new girlfriend showed up to see dairy farmer Joe Engel at work, he took an anxious breath when she walked through the barn door. No doubt about it, she was cute. But Engel, 26, had been down this country road before. "I glanced up and saw her holding her nose, and that was it," said the farmer, whose family owns Luck-E Holsteins in Hampshire, Ill. "It dawned on me — why waste any more of your time, or my time?" So Engel said goodbye to the relationship, not that he wasn’t sympathetic. The air is thick on the 180-acre farm. Cows caked with dung slop through wet hay and smell, well, like cows. Engel knew it would take a special girl to put up with it. So he turned to the Internet. On the half-hearted advice of his older brother, Engel clicked on FarmersOnly.com, an online dating service that plays matchmaker for farmers.
Help to read signs of dyslexia
It is estimated one in 10 people are dyslexic. DAVID MILLS finds out about the support offered by the Dyslexia Association of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
MOVIE superstar Tom Cruise and multi-millionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson are both dyslexic. Other famous people who suffered with dyslexia include Sir Winston Churchill, inventor Thomas Edison and artist Pablo Picasso. Vice chairman of the Dyslexia Association of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham, Lindy Springett, said: "The main problem with dyslexia is it doesn't show. "People don't believe a person who is intelligent could actually have dyslexia." Raising this kind of awareness is the key to the association's work. .
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