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...With its beauty pageant, parade, speed shucking contests and, of course, mountains of fresh oysters, the International Oyster Festival (galwayoysterfest.com) in Galway, Ireland, is four days of fun and feasting, guaranteed to satiate the appetites of even the most ardent bivalve lover. Now in its 51st year, the mouth-watering event runs from Sept. 22-25. Proceedings kick off with the Irish oyster opening championship, but the highlight for most visitors is the international shucking contest, when contestants from as far afield as Singapore and Estonia compete for the world title. Scandinavians have held the top spot in recent years...
Number of years since the Miss America Pageant's inception in Atlantic City, a reign that ended last week when the city agreed to let the pageant leave and search for a new home...
Number of viewers who tuned in to last year's pageant on ABC, down from 25 million in 1995; ABC has dropped the annual telecast, which will now air on Country Music Television...
Morning on the high plains. Inside the red frame Hanging Woman school, 30 miles from the nearest paved road in the cattle country east of Sheridan, Wyo., Fifth-Grader Emily Myers, 10, sits at an upright piano practicing Silent Night for the Christmas pageant. Close by, a second grader starts her daily struggle with sums, while a fifth grader plays a geography game on a computer. Both seem oblivious to the plinking of the carol. Outside, snow is falling on waves of brown, sage-spotted hills...
Glazer, who said that he enjoyed his role in the pageant, explained in an e-mail that judges gave contestants points following each performance, and tallied these points to determine the winner...