Miss America to Showcase More Skin, Less Talent
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.  - The pretty young women  battling to become Miss America may have college degrees,  artistic talent, and high-minded ideals -- but they're also  showing more skin than ever before.
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Sporting updated hairdos and red carpet-worthy fashion, a crop of 52 newly made-over aspiring beauty queens was trimmed to a final field of 16 as they competed for the top tiara Saturday in the Miss America Pageant.
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Aspiring Broadway actress Lauren Nelson was crowned Miss America 2007 in Las Vegas on Monday, with pageant organizers vowing she would lead a clean life after a string of scandals in recent months about misbehaving beauty queens.
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Skimpy swimsuits, a shortened telecast and a last-woman-standing talent competition couldn't help Miss America's TV ratings. A record-low 9.8 million people watched Saturday's pageant, about 500,000 fewer than last year, continuing a trend that threatens the event's future on network television.
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ABC-TV has pulled the plug on Miss America, leaving the famous beauty pageant without a network television sponsor for the first time in 50 years.
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Sporting updated hairdos and red carpet-worthy fashion, a crop of 52 newly made-over aspiring beauty queens compete for the top tiara in Saturday's Miss America Pageant.
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Deidre Downs passed up medical school so she could compete for Miss America. Her decision turned out to be a prescription for success.
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LOS ANGELES  - "America's Next Top  Model" is taking its catwalk to the mobile platform.
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Cosmetics advertising in India is offering the message that the modern Indian woman does not have to live with her dark skin.
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With the Hollywood writersâ strike ensuring that âAmerican Idolâ will face even less competition than normal, the outlook for Season 7 of âIdolâ appears to be as good as or better than ever.
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The quiet clothing industry powerhouse is undergoing a makeover in an effort to attract style-conscious consumers.
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Having learned something from âAmerican Idol,â âWithout Prejudiceâ shifts its focus almost entirely away from the contestants and puts it squarely on the judges.
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For the first time in 50 years, the beauty pageant Miss America will be without a TV outlet. ABC dropped the option to televise the contest because of the dramatic drop of ratings this year, drawing a record low 9.8 million viewers.  (respond)  Do you wa...
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Allyson Felix proved Friday that, at least for her, less is more.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - If not for poor-quality  tattoos on the ankles of some contestants, lack of air  conditioning and the presence of uniformed female guards around  the doors, it would seem like a normal beauty pageant.
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TLCâs mission â to make a modeling show with solemnity â seems worthy. But in comparison, Tyra Banksâs version is ultimately gentler and more fun.
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American fashion has begun to shake off the justified criticism that it has grown feeble, as marquee designers near retirement with no obvious successors.