Many other people also showed real courage in talking to us, like 18-year-old Alex, who broke down telling us how much he hated his body, and Nicola, tall and as beautiful as a model, who lost seven stone.

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The company had a rather tired, inflexible business model and was being beaten by organizations such as Rosetta Stone at capturing the imagination (and money) of people who needed language training.

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When the "Princie" came up for bid a couple of days later, a model in a pink designer-ball gown held up the stone for one final glimpse in the saleroom.

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Working from a one-to-twenty scale polystyrene model, the designer worked closely with an engineering team, including two traditional stone-carvers, in making a vast, jagged construction that, bolted to the walls and secured by steel cables, interweaved gracefully in and out of the shop windows, and loomed above the pavement.

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