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Celebrity Strips N*K*d For Love
YOU can always rely on KATE MOSS to happily dispose of her clothes for a fashion shoot.
Skin-credible ... Kate Moss
The British model goes nude for the third issue of LOVE magazine, with her modesty protected only by a couple of concealing pen marks.
Among the seven other naked beauties mimicking the exact same pose for the multiple covers are DAVID WALLIAMS' fiancée LARA STONE, NAOMI CAMPBELL and NATALIA VODIANOVA.
NAOMI CAMPBELL
The girls have stripped off for the bi-annual mag's Fashion Icons issue - which aimed to highlight the differences between the models' bare forms.
Bust marvellous ... Lara Stone
LOVE's editor-in-chief Katie Grand said: "For this issue of LOVE, we took eight women who are generally acknowledged as the most beautiful in the world, got them to show off their bodies - widely regarded as the most perfect in the world - and photographed them all in exactly the same position for the cover.
"We did this to show how much they differed physically from one another, which is why we also printed their measurements."Much appreciated...
Haiti Is A Cultural Disaster, Not A Natural One !
The tragedy in Haiti is more a man-made than a natural disaster, caused by shoddy construction and terrible infrastructure, writes David Brooks, noting the 1989 Bay Area earthquake of the same magnitude only killed 63 people.
The kind of poverty that caused this catastrophe needs to be tackled, but to do it America's approach to reducing poverty needs a rethink, Brooks writes in the New York Times.
Trillions of dollars in aid to the developing world have done little to reduce poverty in the poorest countries, Brooks writes, arguing that cultural issues need to be addressed instead of just throwing money at the problem. Haiti's culture is doggedly progress-resistant: voo doo spawns passivity, children are neglected, irresponsibility is rampant and social mistrust is widespread, Brooks writes.
Turning the country around will require the kind of "intrusive paternalism" that worked in poor neighborhoods in the US with programs like the Harlem Children’s Zone and the No Excuses schools. Even one neighborhood at a time, he writes, it would be a better start. 
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Best Of Mars Close-Up ( HQ Pics )
NASA'S Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has circled the red planet since 2006. It has the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on board - a camera that takes high-resolution images of the Martian surface.
Here are just a few of the thousands of shots that the camera has taken.
Trails left by dust devils on sand dunes intersect and expose dark material below.
Mars polar regions are of great interest as they are known to contain records of past atmospheric, environmental, and climate conditions.
The impact crater - 330m in diameter - is used to estimate the age of the surface.
More than 10 per cent of the surface area in the North of Mars is covered by windblown sand dunes.
This large crescent-shaped hill is located in a region where some dunes have been shrinking.
This image shows a dust devil blowing across the Martian surface.
Dust devils form when the temperature of the atmosphere near the ground is much warmer than that above.
The fading tracks of the Opportunity Rover near Victoria Crater.
The Victoria Crater, near the equator of Mars, is approximately 800m in diameter.
The distinctive shape is caused by erosion and crater wall material moving downhill. A field of sand dunes sits on the crater floor.
The orbiter snaps an avalanche in the planet's North Polar Scarps.
A portion of the Martian South Polar Cap shows layered formations created over many years.
This 4km-wide feature, near the edge of Mars's south polar cap, has previously been photographed by other orbiters in the 1970s.
The bright areas are covered by carbon dioxide frost and the "swiss cheese" terrain is typical of the region.
Part of a long valley in Elysium Region Volcanic Rise.
A seasonal polar cap of dry ice forms in the north polar region, covering a sea of dunes.
Each layer of deposits on the floor of Becquerel Crater are only a few metres thick.
The sediments may have come from windblown debris, volcanic ash in the sky, or a lake on the crater floor.
This area of hills in Aureum Chaos may have been caused by an outcrop of layered rock collapsing.