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A fashion and beauty maven says women should look to the first lady for inspiration on how to stock their own closets with style. Mikki Taylor, the editor at large for Essence magazine, even bestows a new title on Michelle Obama in her new book, Commander in Chic: Every Woman’s Guide to Managing her Style Like a First Lady. Taylor, who first became attracted to Obama’s fashion sense while working with her on a 2006 magazine story, says that unlike other presidents’ wives, “Michelle Obama effectively dresses for Michelle Obama. She dresses to delight herself. She’s not so influenced by...

The DUers think of everything!: Betsy Ross (261 posts) Fri Sep-09-05 09:49 AM Original message This is serious, and not an insult or joke I contacted OPTIC in San Francisco. This is a group that helps transgendered in crisis. I was told that three members of the TG/TV [transgender/transvestite?] community in NO were coming to SF as they are victims of Katrina. What had sparked my call to OPTIC was this idea: The professional TV performers in NO have also lost, homes, personal possessions, jobs. So I wanted to start collecting items that would allow them to re=establish their careers,...

Last Updated: Thursday, 8 September 2005, 16:30 GMT 17:30 UK Embryo with two mothers approved Image of cloning The aim is to get healthy offspring free of inherited genetic disorders. UK scientists have won permission to create a human embryo that will have genetic material from two mothers. The Newcastle University team will transfer genetic material created when an egg and sperm fuse into another woman's egg. The groundbreaking work aims to prevent mothers from passing certain genetic diseases on to their unborn babies. Such diseases arise from DNA found outside the nucleus, and thus inherited separately from DNA in...