ARTICLES BY JENNY BARCHFIELD

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Pope urges Catholics to shun materialism

APARECIDA, Brazil - Pope Francis made an emotional plea Wednesday for Roman Catholics to shun materialism in the first public Mass of his initial international trip as pontiff, then met with drug addicts and denounced the "dealers of death" who fuel their suffering.

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The campy and the dead at Paris couture

PARIS - Haute couture is all about dressing up - dressing way, way, up, in fact, in made-to-measure garments that cost as much as a new car. But Jean Paul Gaultier reversed the equation Wednesday, sending out burlesque star Dita Von Teese, who peeled off layer after wildly expensive layer …

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Cannes focuses on emerging filmmakers

CANNES, France - This year's lineup at the Cannes Film Festival is leaner and less star-studded than usual, but you wouldn't know that from Wednesday's high-glamour opening ceremony.

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Post-apocalypse sirens, 'Mad Men' wives in Paris

PARIS - From sirens of the apocalypse to sixties chic housewives, picture perfect on the arms of their "Mad Men," Paris had something for everyone on day one of the City of Light's fall-winter 2010-11 ready-to-wear displays Wednesday.

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