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SOCIAL BUTTERFLIES Chantecaille's new pressed-powder compacts and eye shadows, below, feature embossed butterflies. A portion of sales goes to the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Foundation...
Some dreamers chase butterflies. FRANCISCO GUTIERREZ pursues them through international airspace. This fall the Mexican hang glider flew more than 4,000 miles, following the annual migration of the monarch butterfly from Montreal to Mexico's Michoacán state in his ultralight plane. Gutierrez, 44, spent six years planning his 10-week trip and securing funding for a documentary about it in order to draw attention to the logging and pesticide use that threaten the monarch. Gutierrez overcame hardships insects don't face--like understanding foreign air-traffic controllers and fixing an overheated engine. But, now back on the ground...
...offices. Nowhere is that more so than in Swaziland, a mountainous southern African country with the world's highest rate of HIV infection. An astonishing 42.6% of adult Swazis are HIV-positive. It doesn't help that Swaziland's ruler, King Mswati, 37, who is Africa's last absolute monarch, sets such a bad example. Mswati may advocate abstinence and faithfulness, but he hardly practices what he preaches. In September he chose his 13th wife, a 17-year-old girl he picked out at the country's annual reed dance festival...
...first time in history, two women were the principals in the traditional 'kissing hands upon appointment'-a ceremony in which the leader of the winning party is summoned to Buckingham Palace, there to be designated Prime Minister of Britain by the monarch and asked to form a government. The monarch, of course, was Queen Elizabeth II. The Prime Minister was Margaret Hilda Thatcher, 53, a grocer's daughter from the English Midlands, who last week led her Conservative Party to a decisive victory ... Thatcher thereby became not only the first woman to head a British government but the first...
...conducted in front of the provincial Supreme Court, on which Horsmanden was a justice. During the grand jury investigations, Mary Burton, a servant of the white tavern-keeper John Hughson, admitted under threat of imprisonment that her master was plotting to overthrow the government and make himself the first monarch of New York City. (Of course, New York would not have an absolutist ruler for another 152 years, when the city elected Rudolph Giuliani as mayor...