party girls
It's Spring Break in America, and you know what that means... Millions of college students are getting wasted. And, more often than not, this is the time that young women go from concentrating on history or communications to studying Sex Appeal 101.
LA Times columnist Megham Daum went to Cancun a few years ago, to research an article; she
writes: "The raunchy contests and general debauchery were something that these women had prepared for, almost as though for a final exam. They'd logged hours at the gym, in tanning booths and at body wax salons. They'd save up money for breast implants and then timed the surgery so they'd be healed by spring break." The interesting thing is that the women claimed to be doing it for their self-esteem.
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miss america
When the Miss America Pageant, ditched by Viacom owned CMT, finally goes the way of
Elle Girl — online only (but so Web 2.0!) — some, like Nashville's Ralph Emery, may see it as a blow to that "little piece of Americana" that is the promotion of lofty goals (scholarship) alongside loftier ones (swimsuit-wearing!)
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spring break
Breaking! The Gulf Coast resort-area of Cancun may be experiencing a shortage of tits and ass, no thanks to Wilma (as in Hurricane) and the U.S. government, which have
conspired to send the binge-drinkers of U.S. universities stumbling to other — less expensive — wet T-shirt destinations.
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Jezebel
the week that was
