![]() ![]() Girls sign up, they start out with a nude virtual character and they compete against other girls to earn so-called "bimbo dollars" so they can buy these virtually sexy outfits and go out clubbing. If they need breast implants, go ahead and do it. Now, Miss Bimbo encourages girls as young as seven to get the virtual creations online. STEWART: Launched in the UK last month, bills itself as a virtual fashion game for girls. ![]() OK, I'm just going to tell you what the name of the website is and then you can decide why people might be concerned. At the New York Times, you can check that out. That's actually on the front page of the papers. They even said, we didn't know about that. STEWART: Yes, I believe the New England Journal of Medicine is actually to put some sort of retraction. One doctor from the American Cancer Society, which also helped fund that study, said, quote, "If you're using blood money, you need to tell people you're using blood money." So, very controversial. The doctor who led the study says she disclosed everything, but others are pretty upset about it. So, as you can imagine, it set off quite a controversy. ![]() Now, the New York Times did a little investigating and found out that that outfit is almost entirely funded by a company called the Vector Group, and that is the parent company of something called the Leggett Group, which makes several brands of cigarettes. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which did not reveal, at the time, that some funding came from a group called the Foundation for Lung Cancer, Early Detection, Prevention and Treatment. Well, it turns out that the study was partly funded by a tobacco company. It said that 80 percent of lung cancer deaths could be prevented with CAT scans, just by revealing the tumor. You may remember about a year and a half ago, there was this medical study. OK, so I've got an interesting story from the front page of today's New York Times. MARTIN: I mean, what are the odds of that happening? They have to be pretty slim. Even a bullet cannot get between Paul Prudhomme and an oyster (unintelligible). And this is his serious commitment to food. We are pleased to say that Chef Prudhomme shook off the sting, didn't need any medical attention. It was probably shot from about a mile and a half away. Police actually believe the bullet came down from the sky. STEWART: Yeah, and they weren't having a shootout over the ninth hole. He happened to be at a golf tournament in New Orleans and then he felt a sting on his right arm, you know, looked down, thought, oh, gosh, is this a bee sting? Turns out, Paul Prudhomme was grazed by a bullet. Great guy, doing what he does best, setting up a cooking tent. Hey, friend of the BPP, he's been on the BPP at Mardi Gras. All right, a scary moment for famed Cajun chef, Paul Prudhomme. And everything that's in between, much of it ends up in the Ramble. We even read the horoscopes from time to time. Yes, we are equal opportunity newshounds here at the BPP. I'm Rachel Martin.Īnd I'm Alison Stewart. We're online all the time at npr.org/bryantpark. Jacquart has said that he is working on ways to expand the site and reach out to the media to explain why 75,000 people per day log into the site "without any marketing or ads on the site at all.Hey, welcome back to the Bryant Park Project from NPR News. We have some ideas for new brands, we want to expand Miss Bimbo with social networks.". Defenders of the game claim that the criticism is unfair and out of proportion. Traffic to redirects to, which launched on March 1, 2015. The 3 new winners of the fashion leaderboard on Miss for this week are. Blighty Ltd., the company which owns Miss Bimbo, still has Miss Bimbo on its portfolio list of sites as of February 2015. I got some inspiration from winter fashion magazines and the internet. There is currently an alternative website called Like A Fashionista, owned by Beemoov, which is almost identical to the former Miss Bimbo website.
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