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...that will to win that keeps hopefuls arriving at the modeling academies, each convinced that she too can become Miss Universe. Consider Seher Bhandari, 20, a Miss Monsoon contestant who dropped out of engineering school because her friends told her she was tall enough to model. Bhandari plans to win the Miss India title and then become a movie star. "I am very adamant and clear about what I want to do," she says shortly before the competition. "I don't have a godfather in the movie business, so I take part in these contests because I need the experience...
...evidence of Kristensen's arachnophilia sits, silent and menacing, in thousands of plastic cups and modified deli containers in the basement of his unkempt and funky-smelling suburban house in Feasterville, Pa., just north of Philadelphia. Arrayed on tray-size boards and more than 20 6-ft.-tall racks are some 50,000 living spiders representing dozens of species: sleek, lacquered western black widows, hairy fishing spiders, palm-size Gramostola spatulata from Chile, even a fist-size, cocoa-brown African king baboon tarantula...
Just as the drummer is about to launch into yet another solo, the tall, gaunt, goateed Ellison sweeps down a stairwell to the side door of the auditorium, trailing a retinue of blond female publicists. He pauses a moment so that he is backlighted in the doorway, bending toward one of his attendants and asking if his wide forehead looks too shiny in this light. He acts like a rock star about to step on stage...
Then disaster struck. It was Saturday morning. I decided to take the dog and my two-year-old to the park--a big mistake, since they both need to be held. At some point, one of them kicked off the Digi-Walker somewhere in the tall grass. I called the folks at New Lifestyles, who told me that losing one's Digi-Walker is such a common problem that they're going to introduce a model that comes in tennis-ball yellow. I can't wait. I've probably logged 20,000 steps just looking for mine...
...That brave man would be truly deserving of consideration, standing tall with his own vice president at his side. But somehow, it just doesn't sound like the Al Gore we know...