Word: sisterly
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...Latest timepiece trend to entice luxury watchmakers and their avid clientele is sport watches. One of this year's stylish, not-to-be-missed introductions is the RPM collection from Canadian jeweler Birks. Available this fall at Birks in Canada and at Mayors, the company's sister chain in the U.S., the Swiss-made line?Birks' first new sport collection in five years?boasts four different adventure-ready versions, all for less than $1,300 each...
...along the Utah-Arizona border. It is typical for men to have three wives and about 30 children, though some have many more. Women wear their hair long and braided, their clothes modest. They will carry their iPods with them all day so they can listen to Jeffs' sermons. "Sister wives" share household chores and raise multitudes of children as their husbands rotate among bedrooms. It's virtually impossible for child-welfare officials to track levels of sexual abuse. When girls are ready to marry, they "turn themselves in" for the FLDS prophet to arrange a "celestial marriage." The husband...
...they all stayed up late, frantically stitching a wedding dress. One sister testified that Doe was sobbing so heavily, it was hard to fit the lace on the bodice. "I felt like I was getting ready for death," Doe said. She said she hung her head and cried during the ceremony when Jeffs told her to say "I do," and she had to be told to kiss her new husband. Jeffs then instructed the couple to "go forth and multiply and replenish the earth with good priesthood children," she testified. She got home to find a new queen-size...
...When Mahendra Chaudhry was taken hostage in 2000 along with members of his government, New Zealander Bruce Connew's eldest daughter was dating an Indian-Fijian; her sister was dating an indigenous Fijian. When the two young men spoke of Fiji, he recalls, "it was as if they were talking about two different countries." Connew, a documentary photographer, decided to put the unseen Fiji back in the picture...
...mean, the Football Championship Subdivision. Eh…I-AA. When Appalachian State knocked off a fifth-ranked Michigan team in Ann Arbor two weeks ago, and the pundits immediately started ranking it among the greatest upsets in the sport’s history, the ugly sister of college football was thrust into the spotlight...