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Ilove to wear Vivienne Tam, who has a boutique near where I live in Greenwich Village.
I like a few designers, such as Cynthia Rowley, Isaac Mizrahi, Chanel and Versace.
Being tall and a celebrity I'm courted by designers!

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I love Maybelline pressed power to finish and set my look. Mac lipliners are also very
good. They havejust the right texture and I love the rich, red colours.

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I used to hate everything about my face. Brooke Shields was at my school and I
remember seeing her on a Vogue cover and comparing our features. All I wound up
liking was my lower lip - and thinking my eyes weren't so bad!

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As a child I spent seven years studying
Chinese Studies where I qualified for the
I'm in New York - you have to really. It's
to the gym. I still swim and roller-blade a
ballet, and then I went to Harvard to read
rowing team. Now I walk everywhere when
not like Los Angeles, where everyone drives
lot, too.

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Growing up in an Italian family you had to be careful as those rich pasta dishes add
pounds when you're not looking! But I stay away from the risottos andpizzas or just eat
them in moderation. I usually stick to boring gteen salads, grilled chicken or fish and I
love eating sushi.

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It changes your life. You can feel very alone. It's an odd feeling and I feel it even more
when I'm promoting a film. Part of the job of being a movie actor is promotion, and I
have an ability to blend in when I'm off the set, when I'm not in, costume, not in
character. I don't stand out, which is lucky in a way.
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C What's being famous really like?
D What do you think your best feature is?
E What cosmetics can't you live without?
.Í Who's your favourite designer?
G What's Mimic all about?
H Did you think you were beautiful when you were younger?
I Are you a fitness fanatic?

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'Wherever you're from, super-linguist Gregg Cox speaks your language

Dining on the road is never a problem for Gregg Cox. He can order a danish in Danish or
a pigeon in Pidgin. He also can talk turkey in Turkey and, if necessary (0)
CÓx, in fact, can speak 64 languages fluently, making him, says Guiness World Records,
the planet's greatest linguist. "People are so surprised _ not that I speak so many
languages," says Cox, 37, aninternational marketing manager for a dental products firm
who 1ives in Germany with his wife, Sabine ,34, and Trischa, their 4-Year-old, "but that
(1) and speak so many languages."

"Mr. Cox can be extremely proud," says Guiness rep Neil Hayes, noting that
(2)-,heldjoint1ybyaBrazilianbndaNewZeaIander.ThesonofDavid,a
fruit processor, and Virginia, a homemake1 Cox developed his lust for lingo after his
parentsdivorcedwhenhewas5and(3)-,whereheacquiredamu1tinational
array of friends. Starting with Spanish, Cox learned Portuguese, Italian, German and a
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Eight years in the military allowed lrim to add nearly 30 tongues, and since his job
requires considerable travel, (5) . Appropriately, Cox is compiling a
multilingual glossary. "When.I tell people I'm rvriting a book, (6) _." he
says. "Until I tell them it's a dictionary."

A he learns about another five ayeaí

B he moved with his mother to polyglot Los Angeles
C my mum started taking my dictionaries away
D my parents didn't speak any foreign languages
E they get excited
F I'm an American
É discuss garlic in Gaelic
H the Oregon native broke the old record of 58

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Washington
Accompanied by their own veterinarian in their specially adapted Panda One aircraft,
two giant pandas arrived to a red-carpet welcome and a new home at the NationalZoo.
Tian Tian 3, whose name means "more and more",and Mei Xiang 2, which translates as
"beautiful fragrance", are on loan from China for l0 years, in exchange for a "1 million
annual contribution to the China Wildlife Conservation Association", to aid in panda
conservation. The pair will likely restore the Panda House as the top attraction at the zoo
since the. death last year of Hsing-Hsing, a male panda the Chinese government gave to
the US capital after former President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972.

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Three British explorers who had planned to cross the sub-Antarctic island of South
Georgia in the 1916 footsteps of explorer Ernest Shackleton were forced to abandon
their adventure because of unusually severe weather, After reaching the island on Nov
27, the three - Jock Wishart, Duncan Nicoll and Jonathan Chastney - were repeatedly
hindered by gale-force winds that made landing their chartered ship, the Grigoriy
Mikheev, difficult to impossible at numerous bays. Also, a heavy fall of soft new snow
in the Antarctic spring significantly increased the danger of avalanches in areas where
the men were able to trek briefly. Given the unpredictability and severity of the
weather and the safety risks, the trio opted to return home.

(0) Who did the pandas travel with? their veterinarian

(1) How did the two pandas travel?
(2) What does Mei Xian's name mean?
(3) Where are the pandas from?
(4\ How long will they be in the US?
(5) How much will be paid for them altogether?
(6) Who will get the money?
(1) When did Hsing-Hsing move to Washington?
(8) What happened to it last year?
(9) Whose route did the explorers want to follow?
(10) When did they reach South Georgia?
(11) How did they travel there?
(12)-(13) What two things caused them problems?

(14) What did they decide to do?