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Brazilian crowned Miss Earth
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-10-25 08:48 Priscilla Meirelles, a medical
student from Brazil, was named Miss Earth 2004 Sunday, winning a beauty pageant
that promotes environmental concerns.
While in the Philippines, Miss Earth
contestants helped clean a beach, worked on a farm and planted mahogany
trees. | Meirelles, 21, bested 60 other candidates
for the title in suburban Quezon City.
There are no first and runner-up finishers in the competition -- each of the
final four receives a title. Yanina Gonzalez, a 24-year-old marketing student
from Paraguay, was named Miss Fire; Murielle Celimene, an 18-year-old student
from Martinique, was Miss Air, and Stephanie Lesage, a 20-year-old social
economics student from Tahiti, was Miss Water.
The Miss Earth pageant, launched three years ago by a Philippine production
outfit, requires candidates to be aware of environmental problems faced by their
respective countries.
During 3 1/2 weeks in the Philippines, contestants helped clean a beach of
trash, did farm work, planted mahogany trees, biked to promote clean air and
released schools of fish into a reservoir in the north ahead of Sunday's event,
organizers said.
Among the 11 judges was Vida Samadzai of Afghanistan. She was a contestant
last year, when she was condemned in her conservative homeland for appearing in
a bikini. There was no Afghan competitor this year.
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