Word: princess
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Among life's more anxious rituals is this one: taking a new boyfriend home to meet the parents. That's especially so for Princess Fiona, since Mom and Dad are King and Queen of Far Far Away, and her beloved is green, overweight and notably lacking in the social graces. Also, of course, his best pal is an emotionally needy, motor-mouthed Donkey...
...Princess Masako has worked hard to adapt to the environment of the imperial household for the past 10 years, but ... she has completely exhausted herself in trying to do so." crown prince Naruhito of Japan, admitting that his wife, who has not been seen in public since early January, is having difficulties dealing with the constraints of royal life...
...Japanese legend, Kaguya was a beautiful princess who came from the moon and was born inside a bamboo stalk. Today, at the Tokyo University of Agriculture, Kaguya's namesake is a 14-month-old mouse whose conception is every bit as fantastic: she was created by scientists using two eggs and no sperm. As reported in the journal Nature last week, that makes Kaguya the first mouse born by parthenogenesis (from the Greek for virgin birth), a reproductive method seen in insects and reptiles but never before in mammals...
...Prurient, crass and insensitive." CHESTER STERN, spokesman for Mohammed Fayed, on CBS's decision to broadcast photographs from the car crash that killed Princess Diana and Fayed's son Dodi...
...everyone, all the time. That raises a question: If diamonds have gone mass market, what about glamour, that mysterious quality that used to cling to the rocks and the fortunate few who wore them? Glamour once was an elusive quality embodied by aristocratic goddesses like Grace Kelly and Princess Diana. The secret to their appeal? The usual stuff--beauty, money, star-crossed romance--plus mystery, strong personal style and scarcity...