Innovation in the non-food arena was also driven by health, as well as home care, beauty care and self care trends.

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In 1818, a half-educated but boldly self-possessed beauty named Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) captures the admiration, and then the love, of a tubercular young man (Ben Whishaw).

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The beauty of the system is its true self-sustainability: once the transmitter has been been jumpstarted with radio waves, it powers itself through the resulting transmissions.

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Their style, self-possession, thinness and beauty is immense.

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"The fashion industry's promotion of beauty as meaning stick thin is damaging to young grils' self-image and to their health, " said British Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell at the weekend, urging London Fashion Week to follow Madrid's example.

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This is where art comes in: art, even through something apparently simple as the appreciation of beauty, has the power to give people a sense of self worth, a dignity, an understanding of how their lives are worthwhile.

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The beauty of a public charter school lies in its great autonomy and self-determination -- this is what drew me to charter schools in the first place.

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She is showing a series of self-portrait photographs in which she explores questions of normality and beauty in a society which, she says, considers her deformed.

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O'Brien became acquainted with Ferreras when a friend recommended she read the book "B as in Beauty, " a fiction novel written by Ferreras about a young Latina woman who struggles with self-esteem issues.

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He was a devotee of beauty and had given over his life to art with the degree of throwaway fanaticism that entails a horror of self-importance.

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