The latest Newsweek cover contains a ghostly sight: a computer-generated image of a stylish Princess Diana, as she might look now, walking with Catherine Middleton.
The article inside was written by Diana biographer and longtime provocateur Tina Brown. She’s also Newsweek’s editor-in-chief, having taken over after her online publication, the Daily Beast, merged late in 2010 with the decades-old publication. “What would she have been like?” Brown writes of Diana, who would have turned 50 on Friday, nearly 14 years after her death in a Paris car crash. “Still great-looking: that’s a given.”
The magazine’s new issue also features an imagined Diana Facebook page and a slideshow comparing the fashion styles of Diana and Middleton, who married Diana’s oldest child, Prince William, in April. About the cover, a Los Angeles Times headline asked, “Shocking, brilliant or just plain cheap?” An Atlantic Wire headline added, “How Creepy Is Princess Diana’s Ghost on the Cover of Newsweek?” Brown’s answer: Not at all. “We wanted to bring the memory of Diana alive in a vivid image that transcends time and reflects my piece,” she said in a statement.
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Diet drinks linked to weight gain
London: Diet drinks may be a wise choice for those who are health conscious, but a new study says that people who guzzle them tend to get fatter than those who take normal full-sugar fizzy drinks.
The 10-year study of almost 500 men and women linked low-calorie soft drinks with bulging waistlines — even when taken in small quantities. Those who downed two or more diet fizzy drinks a day saw their waistbands expand at five times the rate of those who never touched the stuff, according to researchers at the University of Texas. Prof. Helen Hazuda, who led the study, said diet sodas and artificial sweeteners may foster a sweet tooth, distort appetite and even damage key brain cells.
—PTI