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WASHINGTON - For the first time the U.S. First Lady has made Maxim magazine's annual top 100 list of "hottest women in the world," with Michelle Obama making the grade at number 93. Billed as the "stimulus package America really needs," the British-based international magazine known for revealing pictorials of models and actresses showcases Obama in her tasteful official White House portrait. In the rare accolade for a political spouse, the magazine notes that her husband President Barack Obama "may be dealing with two wars, an economic meltdown, and a rapidly graying dome. "But at least our Commander in Chief...

READING, Ohio -- A sexy mannequin can keep her spot outside a Cincinnati-area barbecue joint, but local officials want her to cover up a bit more. The life-size figure stands as a busty beacon outside a restaurant in suburban Reading owned by Kenny Tessel. He told zoning officials at a hearing last night that the advertising gimmick has boosted business 40 percent. Members of the Design and Review Board indicated they were concerned about "community norms." The 5-foot-10 mannequin is on the street wearing a bikini top and tight short-shorts, although Tessel brought her to the hearing draped in a...

Quick, what does 60 look like? Gray? Wrinkly? Badly knitted afghans spread across creaking knees? Maybe 30 years ago that was someone's idea of 60, but these days 60 is the new 40. Which makes 40 the new 20, and if you continue to follow that line of thinking makes a 20-something an infant. Maybe you have to be 40 to appreciate the way our view of age has changed, but even 20-somethings agree that 60 doesn't mean gray hair and wrinkles. Sixty can be downright sexy, at least if you can believe the results of a recent survey by...

PITY the mothers and grandmothers. Visible bra straps, glaringly obvious roots — these are but a few of the grooming no-nos that have become yes-yeses in recent years. Now there is another stylistic tic that would have been unthinkable on a proper lady in your Aunt Beatrice’s day. Over the last few years — since the era of the skull print scarf, let’s say, or the (metaphorical) rise of the Olsen twins — having streaked, chipped or just plain grotty nail polish no longer suggests drug addiction, manual labor or pure laziness. Like untied high-tops, thread-worn jeans and bedhead, it’s...

Why Face Symmetry Is Sexy Across Cultures And SpeciesHigh and low symmetry composite faces for macaques, Hadza, and Europeans. All images are normalised on inter-pupillary distance to control relative image size, have been made perfectly symmetric, and each high/low pair possesses the average colour information of both. Perceptual differences are then dependent on shape differences between high and low symmetry faces that are independent of symmetry. (Credit: Image courtesy of Public Library of Science) ScienceDaily (May 8, 2008) — In humans, faces are an important source of social information. One property of faces that is rapidly noticed is attractiveness. Research...

'Sexy' voice gives fertile women away 01 May 2008 From New Scientist Print Edition. Colin Barras A woman's voice becomes more attractive when she is most fertile. That's according to Nathan Pipitone and Gordon Gallup of the State University of New York at Albany. The pair recorded women counting from 1 to 10 at four occasions during their menstrual cycle. They then replayed the recordings at random to male and female students and asked them to rate the attractiveness of the voices. Both males and females judged the women's voices to be most attractive if they were recorded during the...

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Viking women had sexy style Published: 11 Feb 08 17:54 CET Online: http://www.thelocal.se/9950/ Women who lived in the major Viking settlement called Birka in the 9th and 10th centuries dressed in a much more provocative manner than previously believed. When the area around Lake Mälaren was Christianized about a century later, women’s dress style became more modest, according to archaeologist Annika Larsson. Previously, it was thought that Viking ladies wore a long garment held up by braces, made of square pieces of wool whose front and back sides were contained with a belt. The characteristic decorative circular buckles, a common...

While sexy celebrities and media darling candidates suck up all the airtime, Duncan Hunter is the strong, honorable, character driven true conservative presidential candidate. It appears that a gentleman who says what he means and means what he says without dancing the political two step isn’t stimulating enough for the over stimulated drive by media. Keynote at a Lincoln dinner, Hunter did not give the typical ‘vote for me because I’m wonderful and will give you stuff’ speech. Recently back from Iraq, Hunter’s humility, love for his country and respect for our troops compelled him to enthusiastically share numerous stories...

Model/actress Amber Lee Ettinger, who depicts "Obamagirl" -- a lustful admirer of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, in an increasingly popular music video posted online this week -- says she isn't sure if the presidential candidate will get her vote during the New York primary next year. "We'll see," she says. "Maybe." Not that she has any issues with the lanky Illinoisan. "He's a nice guy," she says of the junior senator, "a genuinely nice guy." The viral music video in which Ettinger stars, "I Got a Crush on Obama," has been seen by tens of thousands of viewers on Abcnews.com,...

Justin Timberlake and actress Jessica Alba topped the Victoria's Secret lingerie brand's "What is Sexy?" list. "SexyBack" singer Timberlake is sexiest male musician; Jessica Alba, who starred in "Sin City," is sexiest actress; and David Beckham, who has three sons with his wife, Victoria, is sexiest dad. The list of sexy entertainers and athletes was announced Thursday. It was compiled by a team of Victoria's Secret executives, designers and supermodel spokeswomen, including Heidi Klum and Karolina Kurkova. Klum and Kurkova were to host a party in Las Vegas on Thursday to celebrate the list-makers. "I still think my husband (Seal)...

Women have voted Scarlett Johansson the star with the sexiest body in the world. The 22-year-old Hollywood actress topped a poll in Glamour magazine.The 'Lost In Translation' star is famous for her voluptuous figure. Director Woody Allen described her as "criminally sexy" and Glamour said: "With curves to rival Marilyn Monroe's, Scarlett embraces old-school Hollywood style and exudes body confidence. 'Does she ever have an off day? In a word, no.'" The survey of 5,000 women revealed that curvier women are the most admired. Actress Jessica Alba was second and Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen third. Friends star Jennifer Aniston was...

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Milan Fashion week kicked off with another band of glamorous models sashaying down the runway, yet there was one notable difference: they had flesh on their bones.With the row over too-thin models rumbling on, it was ironic that the opening show in the famously chic Italian fashion capital featured clothes for the fuller-figured. Size 14 and 16 models strutted their stuff at the Elena Miro fashion show, displaying busts, hips and bottoms with abandon. Curves were confidently on show and body mass indices, the measure of body fat based on height and weight and the rating that has caused so...

Scarlett Johansson struts her stuff in cleavage-baring dresses on the red carpet, but in real life, she'd rather remain a mystery. "I can't stand those articles where people spill their life story," Johansson says in the October issue of InStyle magazine, on newsstands Friday. "After a while I feel like I know more about them than their best friend does -- and that's weird. It's better when you don't know everything." The 21-year-old actress, whose screen credits include "Lost in Translation" and "Match Point," plays a former prostitute in "The Black Dahlia," opposite Hilary Swank and Josh Hartnett. Johansson says:...

Hillary’s Sex Appeal Seriously… By Louis Wittig New York, NY — There was a sharp, mischievous article in this. It just wasn’t materializing. Everything started out great. I arrived early for the press conference at the Museum of Sex where sculptor Daniel Edwards was unveiling his latest piece, The Presidential Bust of Hillary Rodham Clinton. I talked to Bob Kunst, founder of HillaryNow.com, a grassroots pro-Hillary website / organization, who was standing outside the museum entrance holding up a hand drawn “Hillary in ‘08” sign for a dozen reporters and cameramen. I had quotes before I even went inside. And...

Depending on whom you talk to in Hollywood these days, Hillary Clinton is either too conservative, too polarizing, too famous, too stiff or — keep this to yourself! — too sexy. And those are just the opinions of the celebrities who vote Democrat. (Don't even ask what the few Republicans had to say.) Once the darling of the industry's liberal set, Clinton has come under attack from some as she starts to line up support for what many feel will be a run for the presidential nomination. But that's not unusual for Hollywood — it's almost like a rite of...

The police department of the Russian city of Ulyanovsk obtained information about an attack that a group of criminals was going to commit against a local business woman. The police decided to arrest the gangsters in the woman's apartment, but the 27-year-old lady was supposed to be replaced with a completely different person of opposite sex. A female police officer would not be good to suit the role of a stool pigeon: the criminals were too dangerous. A man dressed up as a woman was supposed to become the main hero of the risky story. Officer Igor Selendeyev, a...

Desperate Housewives actress Eva Longoria has beaten off competition from 'Friends' star Jennifer Aniston to be named the sexiest TV beauty of all time.The 30 year old Latina, who claims she was the 'ugly ducking' of her family growing up, was honored for her sexy performance as Gabrielle Solis in the steamy US hit drama. Aniston, who played Rachel Green for 10 years on NBC, came in second in the British survey, followed by 'Sex and the Citys' Kim Catrall as man eating Samantha Jones in third place.The top 5 sexiest TV stars of all time are: 1. Eva Longoria-Desperate...

Philadelphia, PA (AHN) - The sign outside of a local Philly eatery is causing tourist double takes. Crabby Dick's uses sexual innuendo in its name, as well as in messages posted under its marquis sign to attract the attention of visitors. Tourist Lauri Ritz says she wishes Crabby's would keep their messages more family-friendly, while owner John Buchheist says they are intended to make passers-by laugh. Buchheist says the signs are good for sales, as business usually goes up 20 to 30 percent when the double-entendre are posted.

In its June 5 issue, TV Guide magazine celebrates the sexiest men on TV with 6 collectible covers and exclusive interviews with their female co-stars who talk about what makes them so appealing. Each cover features a different male star from some of the hottest shows on television. Making up the 6 covers are: -- Josh Holloway (Lost) -- Hugh Laurie (House) -- James Denton (Desperate Housewives) -- Patrick Dempsey (Grey's Anatomy) -- Tom Westman (Survivor) -- Gary Dourdan (CSI) Rounding out the list inside the magazine are Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck), Goran Visnjic (ER), Josh Duhamel (Las Vegas), Enrique Murciano...

Okay,FReepers : Fess up !! Who snapped those photos of Saddam Hussein wearing skivvy drawers ? You know: the ones published in the UK SUN ? Was it that evil poster who keeps showing us a bunny with a pancake on its head ? Music, Maestro, please ! "Who threw Saddam's skivvy drawers In Mrs. Murphy's chowder ?" Nobody answered, so he shouted all the louder: "It's a FReeper trick,that's true- Heaven help the one who threw Poor Saddam's shorts in Mrs. Murphy's chowder !"

The South African women's soccer team is to be coached in etiquette and given tighter T-shirts in a drive to soften its image and attract sponsorship ahead of a 2007 World Cup bid. A top official yesterday said female players who dressed and acted like men were giving women's soccer a bad name and they needed to nurture their feminine side. "They need to learn how to be ladies," said Ria Ledwaba, head of the women's committee at the South African Football Association (SAFA). "At the moment you sometimes can't tell if they're men or women."

Pamela Rogers Turner was charged this week with 15 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and 13 counts of statutory rape. Turner teaches and coaches at Centertown Elementary School in McMinnville. Prosecutor Dale Potter said some of the incidents were alleged to have taken place at the school, others at the student's home. Potter said his office intends to prosecute the case to the fullest extent possible because it involves a child. (Copyright 2005, AP)

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NEW YORK, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The results are in and it's time to set the record straight. Of the 50,000 votes cast in the Playgirl's "Sexiest Newscaster" election, where readers were asked to vote online for their favorite national newsman -- the official winner is MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. Several news sources had inaccurately reported that a candidate from a rival cable network had actually won when in fact, he came in second. We still love you, Sean Hannity. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030102/PLAYGIRLLOGO ) Olbermann ran a tough campaign -- linking his website to PLAYGIRL's and urging his viewers to get out...

Rush Limbaugh's Surprising New Gal Pal Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh must be feeling better after his separation in June from his third wife, Marta. He has a new girlfriend--and it's a surprising coupling that lends credence to the idea that opposites attract. She's none other than CNN anchor Daryn Kagan, reports Washington Post "Reliable Source" columnist Richard Leiby.

WASHINGTON - Lauding his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry as "sexy, saucy, brilliant", John Kerry kicked off a new issue campaign that aids say will highlight the "sexiness gap" between him and president George W. Bush. "When it comes to entwined lovers in the White House, America faces a stark choice," said Kerry, 60. "On one path lies a Republican future of darkened lights, granny panties and missionary positions. On the other, a bold, sexy vision of presidential love that isn't afraid of interesting appliances and oils, and isn't afraid to consult foreign advice like the Kama Sutra." Kerry declared that...

Good on Sarah Freeman, the 20-year-old Melbourne assistant store manager who refused to wear the provocative T-shirt her employer provided for her. Westco Jeans had issued staff the skin-tight, V-neck T-shirts with "Stop Pretending You Don't Want Me" emblazoned across the chest. The accompanying memo instructed: "NO T-shirt equals NO work. Any team member that does not dress correctly will be sent home." Freeman was sent home last weekend for refusing to wear the T-shirt after a customer made lewd comments and stared at her breasts. "I said, 'Hello'," she told The Age newspaper, "and he said hello to my...

Riding on the back of his fine Arab or the Valiant Charger, the hard-drinking, hard-living, macho man still saves the day fairly regularly. But media that appeal to women are more likely to portray men as bungling, incompetent fall guys in the workplace and in relationships. New male stereotypes have been prevalent in news, TV drama, films, articles and advertisements for more than a decade and, in a reversal of fortunes, men are now starting to protest. John Marsden, the best-selling adolescents' fiction writer, and author of the non-fiction books Secret Men's Business and The Boy You Brought Home, said,...

Partner Booted From Jail For Dressing Too Sexy New York Lawyer August 13, 2003 By Tony Doris Miami Daily Business Review Leg chains are in. Legs are out. That's the word from the fashion police over at Miami's Federal Detention Center visiting area, where attorney Rebekah Poston got booted for improper attire, again, last week. Poston, chairman of Steel Hector & Davis' white-collar criminal defense practice and corporate compliance group and co-chair of the firm's immigration practice group, said she doesn't own a stitch of clothing that's longer than knee-length. That's a problem for prison officials, who follow a federal...

he Lexington Avenue Crunch isn't just a gym, it's a vat of eye candy. This is the joint that invented "Cardio Striptease." All the personal trainers are out-of-work models or actresses—this is Manhattan, after all—and even the members look like they got a discount for doling out a head shot. There are lots of pretty people here. I'm not one of them. But being in their company fools me into thinking I could be, and that's all the difference I need for that last set of squats. Today, though, after six months of Crunch, I'm finding the normal scenery suddenly...

Making Germany sexy By Clare Murphy BBC News Online Germany is starting a series of campaigns to improve the country's image abroad, seeking to replace the dogged stereotypes of Nazis and sunbed stealing tourists with a more relaxed, hip and even erotic portrayal of its people and language. Adding insult to the injury caused by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who last week compared a German politician with a Nazi, a junior Italian minister this week described Germans as "uniform supernationalistic blonds" who "loudly invade" Italy's beaches each summer. The remarks by both Mr Berlusconi and his employee, Stefano Stefani,...

<p>OAKLAND, Calif. — A new national sex symbol is emerging from an unlikely source: Washington, D.C.</p> <p>"You are so damned hot... And smart, too! I ... am enthralled by your ... adorably handsome appearance."</p> <p>"You are so cute and intelligent."</p>

<p>Draped in a red satin sheet, leaning to show off her generous cleavage, Erin Mullen undressed the camera with her best bedroom eyes.</p> <p>Erin Mullen gets her hair styled while makeup artist Jai Preston applies a special touch around her eyes. Mullen was at Glamour Shots in Grandville last week to prepare a photo surprise for Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Steve Sommerdyke in Bahrain.</p>

Among all the jubilant stories from Iraq, my favorite has been the one about the Iraqi guy who shouted triumphally to passing GIs on their way to Baghdad: "DEMOCRACY! WHISKEY! SEXY!" Damn, I nearly teared up about that. Now it seems that the liberated man's paean to America - like 'All your base' - has taken on a life of its own as the exclamation point on this war. Images are appearing everywhere, like this Lileks jpeg... Keep this in mind when somebody suggests that we'll never win hearts and minds in the mideast; forget the mullahs and imams, America...

Cheering Iraqis handed out soft drinks and offered cigarettes to U.S. Marines on Saturday, warmly welcoming the troops and making throat-slitting gestures at pictures of President Saddam Hussein. The Marines rolled into this town, 50 miles southeast of Baghdad, to tackle any pockets of resistance from Saddam loyalists bypassed as the U.S. vanguard swept toward the capital in the last two days. Instead they saw hundreds of young men heading away from the capital, apparently deserting the Iraqi army. Senior officials of Saddam's Baath Party had fled the town, residents said.

Here’s something you might enjoy: This is, of course, what a liberated Iraqi shouted to the American troops as they rumbled past. This was what America meant to him. You may say it’s a crude reduction of a shallow culture. I say we put it on the twenty dollar bill. (Here’s a small one for your website, if you so desire.)

Let's all thank patriotic Aimee Deep for giving US soldiers a present on HER birthday. Way to go Aimee! March 24, 2003 From Aimee: OK, as promised - Aimee Deep in Lingerie. Dedicated to the soldiers at war in Iraq. Aimee Deep in Lingerie A new one to appear everyday, starting today - my 18th Birthday. Please, go easy - I'm a writer, not a professional model for God's sake! Just an ordinary girl with a heart and soul - and a body. Enjoy. http://www.musicpundit.com/

HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Hotties of the world, unite: ABC is looking to crown a king or queen of comeliness via a new reality series bluntly titled "Are You Hot?" The network will launch a nationwide "American Idol"-like search for the sexiest person in America, with a group of tart-tongued judges passing Simon Cowell-esque judgments on folks who think they're all that and a bag of Baked Lays. ABC has ordered six episodes of "Hot" from gonzo reality producer Mike Fleiss ("The Bachelor"). They will likely will bow early next year. The series will begin with four episodes in which wannabes...

I have always gotten through to the Milt Rosenberg show at 720am Chicago (wgnradio.com). This is a leisurely 2 hour show, hosted by a conservative.