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...sometimes, but all in all, it was an enjoyable couple days. And I really thought it would be just that—a weekend. So imagine my surprise when they announced me as Maryland’s Junior Miss 2002. In pictures of me wearing my gleaming Junior Miss medallion, I look shocked. During my news interview, I look shocked. In the mirror that night, washing pounds of stage makeup, I looked—you guessed it—shocked...
Titles don’t end when you take off the medallion or unpin the crown. From parades to appearances at nursing homes and elementary schools, Junior Miss became a huge part of my life. Each state winner is required to make a creative scrapbook, “Discover Your Own Style” project, plan a blowout sleepover for all the contestants and, of course, prepare for the two week America’s Junior Miss National Finals. To prime me for the all-important interview at nationals, my state chair carted me to mock conferences with Miss Maryland...
...Raelian characteristic. Individual expression is encouraged among Raelians. People wearing different types of clothing and hairstyles other than the top knot sported by Rael attend the annual U.S. "seminar" at Lake Mead in Las Vegas, Nev., each spring. The only common piece of attire is a medallion, bearing a symbol for infinity, which only some Raelians choose to wear...
...highlight of Terry Benca's week in the Boot Camp class in August was when one of the chefs complimented Benca on an apple-ginger sauce he made for a pork medallion entree. "I felt like a schoolkid; I was so excited," says Benca, 56, an engineer who lives in Allegany, N.Y. "I couldn't wait to tell my wife...
...many Catholics believe is the first posthumous miracle of Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity. On Sept. 5, 1998, the first anniversary of the nun's death, Monica was suffering abdominal pain caused, she believed, by a tumor. But the purported tumor vanished when Monica applied a medallion with an image of the late Albanian nun to the site of her pain. In August 2001, Monica's miracle was supplied to the Vatican as part of the fast-tracking of Mother Teresa's canonization. Two weeks ago, the Vatican recognized the 1998 miracle, beginning the process of Mother...