Manolo Blahnik: This is what I try to do, make women feel like princesses

He's the Canary Islands' most famous export who made London his home and became a worldwide household name and national treasure in the process. His own life story reads like a fairytale, so who better to inspire fashion writer and bestselling author, Camilla Morton's latest fairytale collaboration?

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG8910678/Manolo-Blahnik-This-is-what-I-try-to-do-make-women-feel-like-princesses.html 

Shakespeare 'could help doctors become better'

Reading William Shakespeare could give physicians a fresh insight into the links between emotion and illness, a retired doctor and scholar believes.

Dr Kenneth Heaton says many doctors fail to connect psychological problems with physical symptoms - and argues the playwright could help them do it.

He listed dozens of examples in which Shakespeare described these phenomena in his works.

"They could learn to be better doctors by studying Shakespeare," he said.

While traditional medical school training never strays far from the science of diagnosis and treatment, there has been growing interest in recent years in including courses on health-related art, history or literature as part of the curriculum.

Dr Heaton, from North Somerset, who studied Shakespeare after retiring from his post as a gastroenterologist, believes that a broader perspective could make it easier to understand the viewpoint and needs of a patient, particularly in general practice. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15862377 

Do we still need travel agents to book our holidays?

Thomas Cook, the company that invented package holidays and which has been guiding and reassuring travellers for more than 150 years, is facing some serious head winds. Its long-serving chief executive resigned during the summer after the third profits warning of the year, and on Tuesday it announced that it is borrowing another £100 million to tide it over the difficult winter months. The news has sent shudders through an already nervous travel industry, and spasms of anxiety through anyone who has booked a Thomas Cook holiday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/8910460/Do-we-still-need-travel-agents-to-book-our-holidays.html 

Airlines Segregating Tots in ‘Baby Ghettos’ (To Some Other Passengers’ Delight)

What’s worse than getting stuck in the dreaded middle seat of a plane? Having to endure a crying baby in the midst of an already unpleasant flying experience.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/11/22/airlines-segregating-tots-in-baby-ghettos-to-some-other-passengers-delight/#ixzz1eSw07umV

'Terminator'-Style Contact Lens Projects Info Before Your Eyes

Those info-streaming retinal displays from the Terminator movies may be closer to fact than fantasy, according to researchers at the University of Washington and Aalto University, in Finland, who are developing a computerized contact lens that could be used to display data — like emails and text messages — right in front of your eyes.

Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/22/terminator-style-contact-lens-projects-info-before-your-eyes/#ixzz1eSvMZZfr

World's largest dating event sees 20,000 Chinese search for love

On a sunny day on the outskirts of Shanghai on Sunday, 20,000 hopeful, curious and in some cases desperate Chinese gathered for the world's largest dating event. 

But it would be misjudging the mood to say love was in the air.

Instead, in a business convention centre, a stream of pragmatic men and women briskly exchanged vital statistics and contact details.

Lonely hearts advertisements pinned on the wall gave a taste of the proceedings. "Reference: W004763, Name: Yao Qin, Height: 1.63m, Date of Birth: 07.1987," read one. "Lives in Shanghai, has a university degree, annual income 20,000 to 50,000 yuan." 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8887090/Worlds-largest-dating-event-sees-20000-Chinese-search-for-love.html 

 

'Occupy' is most commonly used word in English language media, claims study

Repeated references to the Occupy Movement, which inspired protests outside St Paul’s Cathedral in London and in other major world cities, helped push the word into first place, researchers said.

As a noun, the term was also extensively used when referring to the “occupation of Iraq” and “Occupied [Palestinian] Territory”, the Global Language Monitor (GLM), a media analysis company. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8881273/Occupy-is-most-commonly-used-word-in-English-language-media-claims-study.html