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the runways' winningest new models

With the return of the old guard—Tatjana Patitz, Tasha Tilberg, Adriana Lima, etc.—and smaller castings due to recessionary constraints, it was tougher than ever for up-and-comers to stake a claim this season. Here, Style.com's favorite new faces. —Romney Leader

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1. 1. alla kostromicheva (women direct)

   After some impressive cameos on the Spring catwalks, this arresting Ukrainian stomped onto the New York scene with appearances at Alexander Wang and Donna Karan. A streak in Paris yielded the first-exit honors at Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen.
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2. 2. anna de rijk (dna)

   A lucky break on a Dutch reality show led this runway newbie from top London castings (Christopher Kane, Jaeger) to the most enviable shows in Milan and Paris. A moon-shaped face and a cleft chin are her standout features.
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3. 3. dorothea barth jorgensen (women direct)

   Beguiling eyes and a Cupid's bow mouth helped this Stockholmer parlay the grand prize in a Swedish modeling contest into a runway takeover. Proenza Schouler, Marc Jacobs, Prada, and Chanel were just a few of her blue-chip Fall bookings.
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4. 4. hanna rundlof (marilyn)

   With a look that reminds us of a young Cate Blanchett, this fresh-faced Swede was a steady presence on the Fall catwalks. Turns at Calvin Klein, Jil Sander, and Dries Van Noten (the latter of which she opened) are just the start of good things.
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5. 5. jac (img)

   This Poland native caused quite a stir when she landed a succession of covers and an Hermès campaign at just 13. Two years later, she still had to sit out Paris due to age restrictions, but she closed Marni and was first and last out at Calvin Klein, the Fall campaign of which she scored last week.
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6. 6. karolin wolter (supreme)

   A hectic month that included the coveted first exit at Jil Sander, coupled with a recent editorial in Vogue China, should yield an impressive campaign season for this regal-looking German.
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7. 7. katie fogarty (next)

   Not letting a spectacular spill at last season's Prada show get her down, this Missouri teen proved herself a worthy strutter this time around. A stellar show list, including Balenciaga and Chloé, makes this her true breakout season.
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8. 8. kendra spears (ford)

   She hails from the Pacific Northwest, but there's nothing laid-back about this sociology student's rise. After winning a Ford modeling contest via MySpace, Spears—who draws comparisons to Cindy Crawford—landed on the runways at Nina Ricci and Louis Vuitton.
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9. 9. nimue smit (women)

   Not a newcomer in the truest sense—she's the face of the latest Prada campaign, after all—this doll-faced Dutch cutie decided against the exclusives that have previously kept her under the radar to claim spots in vet-heavy shows like Michael Kors, Bottega Veneta, and Chanel.
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10. 10. tao okamoto (supreme)

    This Japanese mannequin has been spotted on the catwalks before, but a fresh look—a chic new bowl cut inspired the wigs at 3.1 Phillip Lim—led to multiple castings: She logged over 45 shows, including Miu Miu, becoming the first Asian model to walk for the brand in two years.

TITLE:
Microsoft Internet Explorer Two Code Execution Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33845

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33845/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/12366/

DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Internet
Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

1) An unspecified error exists due to the use of a previously deleted
object. This can be exploited to corrupt memory and execute arbitrary
code when a user e.g. visits a malicious web site.

2) An unspecified error exists within the handling of Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS). This can be exploited to cause a memory corruption and
execute arbitrary code when a user e.g. visits a specially crafted
web site.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

Windows XP SP2/SP3:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8cd902ec-e018-4b61-80f9-825d973f998e

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (optionally with SP2):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=dd3e2236-9cc0-478e-a46c-981ef685c0e3

Windows Server 2003 SP1/SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e52aa1fd-e694-4322-b3ff-6abc1b4a16fe

Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (optionally with SP2):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=edbf1566-b96b-4c7d-98fe-b15f8e766792

Windows Server 2003 with SP1/SP2 for Itanium-based systems:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5ce78797-d1c0-40d4-84e1-1004389833be

Windows Vista (optionally with SP1):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5f9fa4b6-85a4-43bc-b84f-6bd847799650

Windows Vista x64 Edition (optionally with SP1):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e9a8c94b-b9d2-4d64-855f-b5f02ce3dfb5

Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2491dbf2-7cd3-44f1-bfad-77e6f760a25c

Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=794373cc-2dce-4ef5-af50-7804c622c230

Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based systems:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=11985325-4b33-4077-82cf-6afc7a71c510

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits:
1) Zero Day Initiative
2) Sam Thomas via Zero Day Initiative.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
MS09-002 (KB961260):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-002.mspx

Two major book publishers announced mobile phone initiatives Monday, as a worried industry increasingly banks on a digital future.

Penguin Group (USA) has started Penguin 2.0, which includes Penguin Personalized, a way for customers to add personal dedication pages to digital books, and Penguin Mobile, which enables readers to receive text on Apple Inc.'s iPhone and other mobile devices.

Also Monday, the Random House Publishing Group said it would make some books available for free on the iPhone, including works by Alan Furst and Arthur Phillips. The text can be downloaded through Lexcycle's Stanza reader.

Other publishers with mobile phone programs include HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Simon & Schuster.

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What can your genome tell you about yourself?

High school genetics taught me a thing or two: I would never have red-headed children, and that growth spurt I hoped would eventually happen was, at best, a remote possibility.

But it turns out our DNA can tell us more than just our hair color or height. A year and a half ago, my family took part in the Genographic Project, a nonprofit collaboration between National Geographic and IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ), aiming to discover the migratory patterns of human groups out of Africa. My cousin volunteered her genetic data, swiped her cheek with a cotton swab and sent it off to a lab for DNA analysis. I already knew my immediate ancestors were Roman Catholics from Spain. But it turned out they took a circuitous route to the Iberian Peninsula: from Eastern Europe to Scandinavia to probably France before settling near Barcelona.

Science has evolved rapidly since the Genographic Project launched in 2005. Now, you can simply spit into a vial and send it off to several genetic-testing start-ups, such as 23andme and the nonprofit Personal Genome Project. These companies will tell you some interesting stuff--not just the migratory patterns of your ancestors but your predispositions for certain diseases or why you don't like Brussels sprouts (a sliver of DNA that allows you to taste a bitter compound in vegetables).

"For science and individual health and identity, I think we're in a key time," says Mary Sue Kelly, a 63-year-old retired psychiatrist who has had her DNA analyzed by the Genographic Project and Navigenics, a disease-focused genetic-testing start-up. "I've made the analogy of when the first mirror was seen--that must have flipped out a whole bunch of people for a long time, or when the first camera came. I think this is as illuminating as that--the first time you saw yourself and just 'Oh my word, that's what I look like?' "

My results from the Genographic Project didn't quite rock my world, but they were surprising. "Guess what we are," my aunt exclaimed when the results came in. I had always thought, due to my grandmother's darker complexion, that I was descended from Arabs who had come to Spain during the expansion of the Ottoman Empire. But I was wrong. "We're Jewish," my aunt said, as my grandmother shook her head incredulously in the seat across from us. "Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews." I briefly wondered if this explained my attraction for Jewish men, shrugged and went back to my book.

I recently, however, decided to dig a little deeper. A search on Ashkenazi Jews brings up some fascinating details--we're really smart, and we were heavily involved in the ostrich-feather trade. But Ashkenazi Jews are also susceptible to a host of scary-sounding genetic diseases, such as Fanconi anemia--associated with short stature (check); bone marrow failure (yikes, I hope not); a predisposition to leukemia and other cancers (my mother had cancer); and Cystic Fibrosis.

Since the Genographic Project is an anthropological study, it doesn't tell me what chance I have of developing any of these diseases. But other genetic-testing companies can, at least to some extent.