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She talks to CNN about Tokyo, dancing and baseball.</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:39:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Police detain Mexican beauty queen, seize weapons</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/12/24/mexico.beauty.queen/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/12/24/mexico.beauty.queen/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A 23-year-old beauty queen and seven men arrested in vehicles loaded with weapons and cash near the central Mexico city of Guadalajara have been transferred to Mexico City, the state news agency said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>There He Is (Again): Mario Lopez Hosts Miss America</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20243587,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20243587,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>The Extra correspondent returns as emcee of the televised pageant</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:20:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Missing beauty queen was mending broken heart</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/09/30/grace.beauty.missing/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/09/30/grace.beauty.missing/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Tara Grinstead, a 30-year-old schoolteacher and former beauty queen, attended a Saturday night beauty pageant and then left a dinner party, telling friends she was going straight home. 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It started innocently enough, a bite to eat, a stroll through the park -- the stuff I never have time for. 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But are her proteges Japanese enough?</description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Miss USA Falls, Gets Booed at Miss Universe Pageant</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20040566,00.html</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20040566,00.html</guid><description>Ten seconds Miss USA Rachel Smith would probably like to forget: Slipping and landing on her behind while modeling her evening gown at Monday night's Miss Universe pageant in Mexico City. (See video below.)</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 11:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Close shave</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/arash_markazi/04/02/wrestlemania.23/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/arash_markazi/04/02/wrestlemania.23/index.html</guid><description>Donald Trump ended up getting a "Stone Cold Stunner," but he walked out of Ford Field with his hair. Vince McMahon wasn't as lucky.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Q&amp;amp;A with the Donald</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/19/8402327/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/19/8402327/index.htm</guid><description>Larger-than-life developer, reality-television star, one-time presidential candidate - Donald Trump has done almost everything over his 60 years. A workingman's plutocrat, Trump survived near-bankr... </description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Doctor dances on unique career path</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/04/25/profile.fryhofer/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/04/25/profile.fryhofer/index.html</guid><description>Dr. Sandra Adamson Fryhofer has an unusual resume: tap dancer, baton twirler, Miss Georgia 1976, M.D., and former president of the American College of Physicians.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Miss America bids boardwalk goodbye</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/26/news/funny/america_moving/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/26/news/funny/america_moving/index.htm</guid><description>Miss America is waving goodbye to Atlantic City, N.J., organizers of the pageant announced Thursday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Trump moves from boardroom to classroom</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/23/news/newsmakers/trump_university/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/23/news/newsmakers/trump_university/index.htm</guid><description>Ivory-tower academics, watch out: Donald Trump is getting into the education business.</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2005 15:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ex-beauty queen sues porn Web sites</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/31/williams/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/31/williams/index.html</guid><description>A former West Virginia beauty queen has sued dozens of Web site operators for posting an Internet porn video falsely claiming to show her in a sex romp in the back of a Channel 13 news truck.</description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Beauty queen's murder trial under way</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/09/ctv.redmond/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/09/ctv.redmond/index.html</guid><description>Sharron "Nikki" Redmond was an accidental beauty queen who shot and killed her boyfriend when she learned he was seeing another woman, a prosecutor told jurors during opening statements Tuesday in Redmond's murder trial.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2005 17:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Aussie beauty wins Miss Universe </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/06/01/miss.universe/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/06/01/miss.universe/index.html</guid><description>First an Australian became a royal princess in Denmark and now a fellow countrywoman has earned another crown of sorts, with Miss Australia Jennifer Hawkins winning the Miss Universe 2004 pageant.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2004 03:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beer Holder Rheingold was the classic lunch-pail and hard-hat brew. 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The crowning of the new Miss USA ended the reign of Carole Gist of Detroit...</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>