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When it comes to a first date, most people try to look their best, but these women who work as models, claim their stunning good looks are actually holding them back when it comes to love. For instance, Elizabeth Marie Chevalier, 27, a Playboy model from San Diego, California, says she finds that men are either too intimidated by her looks to properly woo her - or they can't understand that her wearing a bikini online is 'just a job' and that there is actually much more to her.

Researchers from the University of Cincinnati have found evidence of a cosmic cataclysm 1,500 years that may be responsible for the downfall of the Hopewell Culture. The Hopewell Culture was a widely dispersed set of pre-Columbian Native American populations connected by a common network of trade routes from 100 BC to AD 500 in the Middle Woodland period. The researchers found evidence of a cosmic airburst at 11 Hopewell archaeological sites in three states stretching across the Ohio River Valley in the United States, which rained debris down into the Earth’s atmosphere creating a fiery explosion around 1,500 years ago...

Vogue Endorses Hillary Clinton Using A Photo From 1993 By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times - Tuesday, October 18, 2016 ANALYSIS/OPINION: The media and elitist love for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, continues. It’s unhinged. Vogue Magazine made its first political endorsement on Tuesday backing Mrs. Clinton for president. The endorsement’s not surprising, given its editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, is a huge Clinton bundler. Ms. Wintour helped organize a multimillion dollar fundraiser for Mrs. Clinton in New York City just Monday night with celebrities Sarah Jessica Parker, Anne Hathaway, Neil Patrick Harris, Julia Roberts and others. What is surprising,...

Katie Couric, one of broadcasting’s most respected and popular journalists, will be the keynote speaker for a fund-raising luncheon to benefit cancer research at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center on July 14. The event is co-hosted by KFMB-TV, Channel 8 and CBS News. Tickets for the luncheon are $150 each; tables for 10 are available at $1,500/table for general seating and $3,000/table for preferred seating. A portion of the ticket price is tax deductible. In September, Couric becomes the anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.” With the appointment, she becomes the first female...

Al Gore jokes he's been getting a taste of the movie star treatment. The former vice president was on the "Tonight" show Thursday night. Host Jay Leno asked about the reaction to Gore's documentary on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth." Gore says since he's been on the Hollywood A-list, he's had a huge feud with Lindsay Lohan. When Leno asked for details, Gore said Lohan "knows what she did." The line got a big laugh. Gore also jokes he might consider a nude scene in his next movie if the script had integrity and it advanced the story. On the...

Naked actors having penises painted by prostitute spark riot A group of actors who stripped off and had their penises painted different colours by a prostitute have provoked a riot. The seven actors and the Chilean prostitute were performing in the central square of Bolivia's capital, La Paz. Two cameramen were filming the scene for an art project. In the middle of the performance the crowd tried to attack them and police used tear gas to disperse it. They then arrested all 10 for public obscenity. Police Colonel Manuel Mercado says they infringed the penal code by having "their members...