'Dwarf': Undergoing Controversial Lengthening Surgeries

Tiffanie DiDonato  said everything she has ever wished for has come true: a handsome husband, loving friends and a new baby. But most of her childhood dreams play out in simple, everyday victories, like taking out the trash or driving.DiDonato, 32, was born with diastrophic dysplasia, a rare form of dwarfism. The condition left her with a "typical size" torso, but abnormally short arms and legs....

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Kim Kardashian brings out fans, Islamists and police in Bahrain

MANAMA (Reuters) - U.S. television celebrity Kim Kardashian brought out screaming fans, angry Muslim hardliners and police throwing stun grenades on Saturday when she visited Bahrain to launch a milkshake franchise, witnesses said.About 100 Sunni Salafists demonstrated with banners outside The Walk Bahrain, an upmarket mall in the capital Manama, after some MPs tried to block the visit over what they...

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More mannequins, less clutter at heart of JC Penney plan

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More mannequins are on the floors of J.C. Penney stores. About 40,000 more.They are one of the most visible changes J.C. Penney Co Inc Chief Creative Officer Michael Fisher has made to try to revive the 110-year-old department store chain, whose sales plunged 26.6 percent last quarter and whose shares have tumbled more than 50 percent this year.Penney has a plan to transform its...

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More mannequins, less clutter at heart of J.C. Penney plan

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More mannequins are on the floors of J.C. Penney stores. About 40,000 more. They are one of the most visible changes J.C. Penney Co Inc Chief Creative Officer Michael Fisher has made to try to revive the 110-year-old department store chain, whose sales plunged 26.6 percent last quarter and whose shares have tumbled more than 50 percent this year. ...

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Rihanna to star in own U.S. fashion reality show

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Chart-topping R&B star Rihanna is delving into the world of fashion, starring in a reality television show competition that will challenge designers to make outfits for a handful of celebrities, U.S. cable channel Style Network said on Wednesday."Styled to Rock," set to premiere in the latter half of 2013, will feature 12 young designers handpicked by the Barbadian Grammy-winning...

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Flight attendant quits over Facebook coffee threat

BANGKOK (AP) — A Cathay Pacific flight attendant is out of a job after writing on her Facebook page that she wanted to throw coffee in the face of a passenger who is the youngest daughter of Thailand's ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.The flight attendant caused a stir in the Thai online communities last week for posting hostile comments about Paetongtarn Shinawatra. She also posted a picture...

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Flight attendant quits over Facebook post about throwing coffee on daughter of former Thai PM

BANGKOK - A Cathay Pacific flight attendant has quit her job after writing on her Facebook page that she wanted to throw coffee on a passenger who is the youngest daughter of Thailand's ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.The flight attendant caused a stir in the Thai online communities last week for posting hostile comments about Paetongtarn Shinawatra. She also posted a picture of Paetongtarn's...

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Facebook letting users vote on whether to keep their voting privileges for website changes

Don’t worry, Facebook (FB) users: The company may take away your power to vote down proposed changes to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Data Use Policy, but it will only be because you told them it was OK. The Next Web reports that Facebook has caved to user anger at proposed changes to its site governance documents that would, among other things, take away users’ ability to vote...

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Barack Obama Gave Debbie Wasserman Schultz Two More Years... on Twitter

Because Twitter town halls and cool hashtags aren't enough, apparently, President Obama renewed Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz's position via social network  Monday afternoon. Seriously, this is the tweet from Barack Obama, and you know it's from him because of the "-bo" signoff at the very end:     I've asked Debbie Wasserman Schultz to continue...

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On Twitter, Obama puts question mark over mortgage deduction

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Taking to Twitter to press his case in "fiscal cliff" talks with Congress, President Barack Obama  said on Monday that tax breaks benefiting middle class families such as the mortgage interest deduction could be at risk if rates for top earners do not rise.Obama is locked in negotiations with Congress to prevent a year-end fiscal crunch. If the administration and lawmakers...

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