Move over, Nate Dern. Nora Ali, the newly crowned America's Junior Miss, is in the class of 2011, and she's bringing smarts along with sexy back.

Unlike the bimbotastic Miss Teen USA pageant, Junior Miss organizers emphasize that being hot and kind of a cokehead isn't enough to snag the crown. In addition to their racks, contestants are judged on scholastics, an interview, fitness, self-expression and a talent performance.

Ali's initial reaction to the diverse set of criteria?

"When I saw the categories, it was like, 'This is me rolled into one.'"

They never said modesty was under consideration.

Then again, Ali probably doesn't need any. When not trotting the runway, she chills out by saving the world. Hobbies include stem cell research, playing with two symphonies and a quartet, and performing the national anthem on the violin at Minnesota Twins games.

Um, yeah.

If she works like a geek and studies like a geek, I don't care what the hell she looks like; she's a  geek. And here I thought Harvard would be a tough place for beauty queens to fit in.Link: http://blog.al.com/juniormiss/2007/07/ali_family_e...