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INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, December 7, 2003 11 Miss Ireland wins Miss World crown, India’s Ami Vashi among the top five Top Gun joins Reuters AP Dubya doll ranks Get set for a deluge Washington: A US compa- ny that sells foot-tall “action figures” of President Bush of Christmas spam has added a new “Top Gun” model sporting a fighter pi- Paris: On the sixth day of some offensive, some de- lot’s flight suit in time for Christmas, my true love structive — and all of it Christmas. sent to me... Six e-mails junk. The new doll comes with for penis enlargement... From now until the helmet and visor, goggles five for cheap credit... four New Year, delete buttons, and oxygen tank, recalling for Viagra... three for a firewalls and spam filters the president’s May 1 land- dodgy online pharmacy... will have to be in good ing on the flight deck of a two for a get-rich-quick shape. Navy aircraft carrier when scam in Nigeria... and an “Spam, viruses and ma- he declared an end to major electronic greetings card licious code are set to combat operations in Iraq. with a hidden virus that peak in December,” says Talkingpresidents.com turned my computer into filtering firm Clearswift. has sold about 60,000 of its a spamming machine. “The spammers will at- original Bush dolls, clad in a 2003 will be the most tempt to peddle seasonal conservative jacket and tie, spam-filled Christmas in products to employees full since the launch in Decem- what is already the spam- of the Christmas spirit.” ber 2002, said co-owner John miest year on record, ex- Almost a quarter of the Warnock. perts say. spam it stopped for its Phrases in the president’s This year, hucksters clients in October was as- own voice, placed on the and hackers are teaming sociated with offers of doll’s sound chip, include, up to ensure that your cheap loans for people “Terrorism against our na- Christmas e-mail inbox worried about the cost of Miss Ireland (centre) celebrates with first runner-up Miss Canada Nazanin tion will not stand” and will be stuffed with solici- Christmas, says Clear- Afshin-Jam (left) and second runner-up Miss China Qi Guan after winning the Miss World Femina Miss India-World 2003 Ami Vashi, who finished “Working to put food on your tations: some tedious, swift. AFP 2003 title in Sanya, China, on Saturday. among the top five finalists, at the pageant. family” (sic). Reuters Flies grow senile too: Fruit flies grow senile as they age, according to researchers. It is Pageant opens up China’s world the first time that senility has been confirmed in any creature Sanya: Miss Ireland, 19-ye- near to tears when the top monthly urban salary aver- other than mammals. AFP ar-old Rosanna Davison, five was announced. I didn’t ages $100. won the Miss World contest Live forever: think I’d get this far.’’ She China hopes fame from held on Saturday in this sou- hails from , a to- Miss World will draw tour- thern Chinese beach resort. Ami Vashi wn just outside of . ists to Sanya, a palm-dotted Second place went to Miss Miss World president Jul- southern Chinese resort city Canada Nazanin Afshin- Sanya: Asked what she ia Morley said next year’s on the island province of Jam, while Miss China Guan had learnt in the past edition would be held in Chi- Hainan. The contest was the Qi took the third spot. Femi- one month in the run- na as well. The exact city ha- latest of China’s efforts to na Miss India-World 2003 up to the Miss World sn’t been decided yet, she ad- open its doors to the world Ami Vashi was among the pageant, Femina Miss ded. ‘‘We love Sanya, but we and become more of a global top 5. India-World 2003 Ami want to explore other pla- player. ‘‘As reform and open- Given 30 seconds to de- Vashi, who finished ces.” ing up go deeper, some bene- scribe herself, Davison said among the top five, It was China’s first time ficial cultural activities have she was a ‘‘warm, fun-loving replied: “I have always hosting an international been introduced to China,’’ person’’ who values honesty lived my life as if I pageant. A $12 million tiara- said Zhou Xiong, spokesman and integrity. She has taken would die tomorrow so shaped convention hall was for China’s Miss World Or- a break from college to rep- that I could live my life built especially for the event, ganizing Committee. ‘‘The resent Ireland. Her father, to the fullest. But dur- which the organizers said Miss World competition is the singer — ing the past one month was watched by 2 billion peo- one of the examples.’’ best known for the hit Lady in China, after receiv- ple around the world. There were no disrup- in Red — said afterward: ing the love of so many Judges included film star tions, unlike last year when ‘‘I’m absolutely thrilled, I’m friends and building a Jackie Chan, Sex and the the pageant was hastily mo- seriously proud of her.’’ bond with them, I will City author Candace Bush- ved to London from Nigeria live each day as if I will Davison, wearing a bright nell and Julia Morley. Tick- following deadly rioting be- live forever.’’ pink dress with sparkles, ets sold briskly, though the tween Muslims and Chris- tians. AP was very calm and very pois- prices — between $80 to ed as she accepted her crown ‘‘I was surprisingly calm,’’ $2,000 — were hugely expen- and waved to the audience. she said afterward. ‘‘I was sive in a country where the New role for old Russian nukes Moscow: Russia moved closer to obtaining its cheapest rocket yet for commercial satellites after successfully test- ing on Friday a converted nuclear missile that was decom- missioned to meet disarmament treaties. A Strela modifi- cation of a Soviet RS-18 Stiletto missile roared into space from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, said spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Igor Zatula. The Stiletto was designed to carry six individually guided nuclear warheads, enough to destroy several Western cities, but may now end up providing satellites for phone networks and television broadcasters in countries it once targeted. Reuters

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