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India's hue and cry over paler skin By Amrit Dhillon in Delhi, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 11:48pm BST 30/06/2007 As both an A-list Bollywood actor and the host of India's answer to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Shah Rukh Khan sets hearts aflutter for all manner of reasons. Now, however, he has been accused of peddling a dream too far - in an advertisement for skin cream. Shah Rukh Khan has agreed to be the face of a skin lightening cream Khan, 41, a heart-throb star likened to an Indian Tom Cruise, has agreed to promote Fair and Handsome,...

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who enthused activists and unnerved business leaders with many of his early appointments to top environmental slots, is increasingly favoring industry officials for key jobs protecting California's forests, air and water. Schwarzenegger's effort to be a green Republican has been one of the principal ways the governor has depicted himself as being above Sacramento's traditional partisan divides. But in a reversal from the beginning of his tenure, it is now environmentalists who are objecting that Schwarzenegger has bent too far to one side. --snip-- "We have seen a change in the wrong direction," said Bill...