52 vie in made-over Miss America Pageant
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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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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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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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Petra Nemcova knows what it's like to struggle to stay thin and continue modeling. "I'm naturally more curvy, so I always had to lose weight," the 27-year-old Czech supermodel says in People magazine's Oct. 2 issue, on newsstands Friday. "I took laxatives. I went through all of it just to be able to model."
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Miss Alabama Deidre Downs, an aspiring doctor who put off medical school to compete for the Miss America crown, won it Saturday night...
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The annual Miss America pageant will return to the Las Vegas Strip for its 2007 contest, organizers said Thursday. The crowning will air live on Country Music Television from the Aladdin Resort &amp; Casino on Jan. 29, organizers said.
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Miss Rodeo North Dakota Ashley Andrews had goals of beating cancer and winning the Miss Rodeo America crown. She accomplished both.
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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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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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ABC has dropped Miss America, leaving the famous beauty pageant without a network TV outlet for the first time in 50 years.
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Miss Michigan Kirsten Haglund, a 19-year-old aspiring Broadway star, was crowned Miss America 2008 on Saturday in a live show billed as the unveiling of the 87-year-old pageant's new, hipper look. Haglund, of Farmington Hills, Michigan, sang "Over the ...
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Kentucky native Tara Conner plans to stay in New York after her reign as Miss USA ends on March 23.
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China chose its first Miss Artificial  Beauty on Saturday, giving the crown to a 22-year-old from the  northeastern city of Jilin who couldn't have done it without  the help of her plastic surgeon.
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Tells Congress she looked at dirty photos The current Miss America has asked Congress to take further steps in protecting children from internet predators.â¦
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Miss America is all dressed up with no place to go -- at least for now.
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At the Miss Universe pageant, a dialogue with the neighbor up north.
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Miss Subways has returned, in a revival of a contest that wilted in 1976, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the New York City subway system. But please Â it's Ms. Subways now.