No one at the modeling agencies, she said, ever told her she was too thin.

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The cycle thus continues over time, suggesting that modeling agencies in the year 3000 will have a glut of applicants and cosmetic surgery will be a more-subtle affair, if it exists at all.

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Modeling conventions, where local agencies can introduce promising models to bigger agents, are another possibility.

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Soon she won a modeling contest sponsored by Elite, one of New York's biggest agencies.

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To help smaller manufacturers compete, federal agencies are working with private companies to make powerful, often unaffordable modeling and simulation software easier to access.

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