Word: horning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dying a thousand deaths. I've never had people stare at me like that, and with binoculars! I'll be thrilled if they can get rid of it." Says this year's Miss Montana, Amanda Granrude: "We shouldn't have women in a veiled strip show." Even Leonard Horn, who runs the Miss America Organization, says, "I personally cannot rationalize it." Eager to italicize the scholarship program that gives more than $24 million a year to contestants, Horn sees the swimsuit segment as a tacky relic of Miss America's childhood...
...general this is a triumph of starch over sizzle. The earnestness with which the women sell themselves would make them comfy at a Mary Kay Cosmetics convention. They radiate not fantastic beauty but fanatical effort. For some, striving to be universally liked can trigger the scent of desperation. Horn says, "They are interviewing for a job--the job of Miss America," and the pressure shows. It doesn't help that they are chaperoned and shadowed by so-called State Traveling Companions and two hostesses to a contestant. They are prisoners of the fame they seek...
Nongovernmental environmental investigators like Galster, who was trained in intelligence techniques, are really rare birds and fun to watch. In 1993 Galster tracked shipments of rhino horn from Mozambique to Taiwan to Hong Kong. The operation ultimately brought Galster to a warehouse in Wuchuan, China, that contained the horns of more than 500 dead black rhinos worth $13 million...
...sellers, who worked for a state medicine company, were part of a dangerous syndicate. Rebecca Chin, a Taiwanese colleague who carried a concealed video camera in a shoulder bag, was trembling so badly that the film was unusable. Galster and Chin fabricated a reason to see the horn again and produced a damning videotape that landed the officials in jail and called international attention to the scale of the threat Asian trade poses to black rhinos...
...Russia, to Harbin, China. Using a camera concealed in the buttonhole of a gaudy sport jacket, Galster had the pleasure of videotaping the bandits as they told him they had to be careful because they had read about an American man and Chinese woman who had busted a rhino-horn ring in Wuchuan...