Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...October 8, State Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge) will take part in an international summit at Cambridge's Salvadoran sister city of San Jose las Flores...
...contract with Davis required St. Paul's to deliver the lot in a condition acceptable under state environmental standards--so the parish now faces heavy cleanup costs, said Sister Mary K. Powers, chaplain of the Harvard Catholic Student Center...
...concentrate on the 100," she says. "Yet I had the fastest time in America in 1985 and again last year. I was always somewhat overlooked." Her coach, Bob Kersee, had found gold for other athletes, including Jackie Joyner-Kersee, who is Kersee's wife and Al Joyner's sister (making the four of them a sort of First Family of U.S. track). "Bobby told me to go to the trials in the 200," says Flo-Jo. "But Al and I had decided I'd go to the trials in the 100 and 200." After the event, Griffith Joyner announced that...
...only her outfit but also her nail polish. "I love it when she paints on little palm trees," says an adoring Al. He insists that his wife's departure from Kersee's club will not cause any awkwardness come Thanksgiving Day. Says Al: "Jackie will always be my sister, Bobby will always be my brother-in-law, and Florence will always be my wife...
...church has been particularly aggressive in promoting natural family planning throughout the Third World. Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity run an N.F.P. center in Calcutta in a former chemicals warehouse. The sisters have taught the method to 64,000 women in the Indian state of West Bengal. Teachers use everyday agricultural images to explain a woman's menstrual cycle: seeds are planted during the monsoon, when the soil is soft and moist; cows are inseminated when they produce mucus at the cervix, fertility's telltale sign. Some women who cannot afford pencil or paper dutifully chart their fertile days...