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Beauty Bytes: October 12, 2012

Beauty pageants will never die. in Saudi Arabia, the third annual “Miss Congeniality” pageant was held on Monday. In a country where strutting on stage is forbidden, the practice of young women competing before a panel of judges lives on. Only the contest is based on piety and ambitions for social change – as well as confidence, literacy, charisma and theatrical performance. The winner, Maram Zaki al-Saif, who holds the title of Saudi “Queen of Ethics”, intends to help people …

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Beauty Bytes: May 18, 2012

Has the “Most Beautiful Woman in the World” gotten too fat? Aishwary Rai went from Former Miss World title holder to Bollywood Actress, L’Oreal Cosmetics model, and possible global representative for the UN’s girl child campaign. She’s also a new mother to a baby girl, and at 38, hasn’t yet shed the “baby weight”. In a country where starvation is still common, she was one of the first Bollywood stars whose proportions were closer to supermodel thin than to curvier …

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Beauty Bytes: April 6, 2012

San Jose, California: Former beauty queen Saman Hasnain (she was Mrs. Pakistan World in 2008), has been charged with 18 felony counts of conspiracy to commit grand theft. With her husband, she allegedly placed fliers and ads in ethnic grocers promising cheaper rates for home mortgages. As many as 80-100 people signed up for lower rate mortgages, placing deposits in an escrow account. When the loans failed to materialize, the victims found that the fine print on their contracts allowed …

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