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Skincare Expert Vanessa Lee Shares How to Wake Up With a Defined Jawline and More A-List Approved Tips

Skincare Expert Vanessa Lee Shares How to Wake Up With a Defined Jawline and More A-List Approved Tips

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Get that glow! Vanessa Lee is known for helping celebs like Kourtney and Kim Kardashian, Jessica Alba, Gabrielle Union, Kate Hudson, and more achieve clear, sculpted skin, and now The Things We Do founder is sharing her top tips with ET. For starters, the medical aesthetic provider believes finding a personalized regimen that works for you is key. “When you know your skin well, you end up saving yourself a lot of time and money. It is so easy to see someone with great skin and want to follow their routine, only to get sucked up in a cycle that doesn’t serve you,” she explains.  Some questions to consider: “Do you take after mom or dad more with your skin? Are you oily mainly in the t-zone or all over? Do you break out in small, superficial breakouts or larger cystic ones or both? How long does it take you to recover from a red or brown spot?” Vanessa Lee/Instagram From there, the skincare guru can focus on your specific concerns and goals. “The most …

Amazon’s 10 Books That Defined 2024

Amazon’s 10 Books That Defined 2024

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Amazon’s 10 Books That Defined 2024 Amazon editors made the impossible selection of just 10 books that defined this year. There were three books I was 99% sure would make the list: James by Percival Everett, Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar, and All Fours by Miranda July. If you’ve kept up with even a few best of and big literary awards list, you too would have made this guess because these books were on all the lists, including this one. I loved The God of the Woods by Liz Moore, which became the big book club book of the year, so I was glad to see it make the list along with my other faves, James and Martyr!. I was most surprised by the inclusion of Wicked by Gregory Maguire. I mean, I know the adaptation has received huge …

The Nine AI Stories That Defined 2024

The Nine AI Stories That Defined 2024

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This is Atlantic Intelligence, a newsletter in which our writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a new machine age. Sign up here. Thank you for reading Atlantic Intelligence this year: It’s been a pleasure appearing in your inbox each week, and we can’t wait to bring you new coverage in 2025. Collected below are some of the standout stories we published this year, which explore new frontiers for AI and the risks that come with advancement. We hope you enjoy some of these great reads during your holiday downtime. See you again in the new year! What to Read We’re Entering Uncharted Territory for Math Terence Tao, the world’s greatest living mathematician, has a vision for AI. By Matteo Wong ElevenLabs Is Building an Army of Voice Clones A tiny start-up has made some of the most convincing AI voices. Are its creators ready for the chaos they’re unleashing? By Charlie Warzel Microsoft’s Hypocrisy on AI Can artificial intelligence really enrich fossil-fuel companies and fight climate change at the same time? …

Psychedelics rejected, Captagon factories and “pink cocaine”: The drugs that defined 2024

Psychedelics rejected, Captagon factories and “pink cocaine”: The drugs that defined 2024

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In the U.S., about half of the population takes a prescription drug every day, and half of adults have tried illicit drugs at least once. Drug use is a routine part of life for most Americans, whether it’s coffee in the morning, alcoholic drinks at night or using anything else to get by. This past year saw some major changes in drug trends, which could give a good indicator of what’s to come in 2025 and beyond. In the 2024 election cycle, Kamala Harris made history by becoming the first presidential candidate to promise to legalize cannabis at the federal level if elected. While that policy change is not something President-elect Donald Trump has said he supports, Harris and President Joe Biden did move to reschedule cannabis from a Schedule I substance (in the same category as heroin) to a Schedule III substance (in the same category as ketamine) this year, pardoning thousands of convictions for possession. Outside of policy, researchers in the lab continued to learn more about how drugs affect the body. Lenacapavir, …

Met Gala 2024: 26 Outrageous And Iconic Moments That Defined The A-List Event

Met Gala 2024: 26 Outrageous And Iconic Moments That Defined The A-List Event

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Now the first Monday in May has arrived, some of the most prolific A-listers in the world will be getting ready to walk the red carpet at the annual Met Ball. The star-studded event was originally conceived as a fundraising gala, aiming to benefit the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York’s Costume Institute. However, most of us probably most associate it as the red carpet event where the likes of Rihanna, Zendaya, Kim Kardashian and Cardi B can all be seen serving up some jaw-dropping fashion moments, with each year’s event being given a particular theme (which the celebs on the guestlist each interpret in their own way). But it’s not just the red carpet fashion that gets us talking at the Met Gala every year. Across the decades, the event has generated countless headlines thanks to bust-ups, A-list incidents and attention-grabbing stunts. To get us in the mood for this year’s event, here are XX moments that defined the Met Ball… Lady Gaga certainly knew how to make an entrance with four different …

32 Outrageous Moments That Defined The Brit Awards

32 Outrageous Moments That Defined The Brit Awards

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On-stage blunders, political statements and shocking celebrity feuds, the Brit Awards stage has seen them all over the last 40 years. The Brits are famously the most chaotic awards shows going, and while the impression seems to be that they’ve become more tame in recent years, that doesn’t mean the last few years have been without their own jaw-dropping moments. Ahead of this year’s event on Saturday 2 March, we’ve rounded up the good, the bad and, indeed, the ugly for you, and hand-picked 32 of the most memorable Brits moments ever… Adele proves why you don’t rush a superstar (2013) Best British Album is the category every UK artist wants to win at the Brits, so it’s understandable that Adele would want to soak up the moment when 21 was given the accolade. Sadly for host James Corden, it looked as though her acceptance speech was going to overlap with Blur’s performance back in 2012, and as he tried to hurry her along, the frustrated singer wound up flipping the bird before leaving the …

9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career

9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career

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  El Greco, born Domenikos Theotokopoulos, was a controversial figure both during and after his lifetime, going through cycles of praise and ridicule over centuries. His unconventionally distorted figures, bold colors, and expressive intensity brought him closer to the radical modern art movements like Post-Impressionism and Expressionism than to the Renaissance of his time. Take a look at 9 outstanding works of El Greco that will help you examine his style and innovative spirit.   1. El Greco’s Early Years: Saint Luke Painting the Virgin St Luke Painting the Virgin by El Greco, c.1560-1567. Source: Google Arts and Culture   Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known simply as El Greco (Italian for the Greek), was born in Crete in 1541. During the thirteenth century, Crete—being part of the Byzantine Empire for centuries—was taken over by Venice. In terms of artistic life, Venetian influence brought opportunities for a more diverse education and more structured working conditions for artists in the form of painters’ guilds. As a child from a wealthy family, El Greco had the chance to receive a …

‘People said it did in his career’: 33 pictures that defined British politicians | Photography

‘People said it did in his career’: 33 pictures that defined British politicians | Photography

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There’s a type of hard-boiled political operative who always has the TV on in the office – sometimes more than one – permanently set to the news channels and almost always with the sound turned down. You might think that’s because they need quiet to work, and should something of interest appear, they would turn the volume up. But that’s not quite right. This brand of political professional believes that, when it comes to watching news coverage, the sound is all but irrelevant. What registers with people – with voters – are the pictures. Does the leader look strong and in command? Or weak and hesitant? Is the candidate smiling, brimming with confidence? Or brooding, head in hands? Do they look natural, at ease with ordinary people – or gauche and awkward, a visiting alien from Planet Politician? For any of these judgments, you don’t need to hear the words. The image alone tells the story. Many of the 33 pictures collected here do that for some of the best-known figures of recent British political …

Kerry and Xie exit roles that defined generation of climate action

Kerry and Xie exit roles that defined generation of climate action

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United Nations climate summit in Dubai was wrapping up last month when John Kerry went to a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua only to find a surprise waiting for him. Xie’s 8-year-old grandson had brought Kerry a card for his 80th birthday. The lanky American, who had signed the landmark Paris climate accord with his granddaughter on his knee almost a decade earlier, bent down to thank the boy and praise his grandfather, according to someone who described the private encounter on the condition of anonymity. Just how overheated a planet those two grandchildren half a world apart will inherit has hinged in part on the unusually warm bond between Kerry and Xie, whose relationship for the past decade and a half helped forge the globe’s stutter-step progress in curbing climate change. Xie, 74, retired in December, and Kerry recently announced that he’s stepping down soon. It was a partnership that defined one generation’s hopes of saving a future one. At a glance, the two men make an odd …

The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency

The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency

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  During the 1972 presidential campaign, a group of men was caught breaking into the Democratic Party national committee offices at the Watergate Complex. While the Democrats lost the election in a landslide to incumbent Republican president Richard Nixon, the seeds of Nixon’s downfall had been planted. As the months passed in Nixon’s second term, the growing Watergate scandal undermined his presidency. Eventually, audio tape evidence revealed Nixon’s deep complicity in the attempted cover-up of the Watergate break-in. How did the Watergate scandal lead to the first, and so far only, presidential resignation in American history? How did the most powerful man in the country get caught breaking the law?   Setting the Stage: Richard Nixon’s Hard Losses President-Elect Kennedy visited Vice President Nixon at the Key Biscayne Hotel where the Nixon family was vacationing. They discussed the presidential election and the upcoming administration transition.   In 1960, Vice President Richard M. Nixon was the Republican nominee for president, hoping to succeed his boss, Dwight D. Eisenhower, as the next chief executive. His opponent was …