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First comes cyberlove, then ... cybermarriage? Yep, thanks to long-distance relationships and the rise of destination weddings (about 25% of unions in the U.S.), more couples are getting hitched on the Net. We talked to three: one streamed video of the live ceremony, another actually wed via webcam, and the third got virtually married online. Anna Post, author of Emily Post's Wedding Parties, weighs in on the proper etiquette (no gifts required!) for when guests--or even the bride and groom--can't show up in person...
Subsidies aren't the only cause of expansion, but they do "wed farming regions to an ongoing pattern of economic consolidation," concluded the Kansas City study. Nebraska's Center for Rural Affairs found the 2002 farm bill--the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act--spent six times as much on subsidies for the state's top 20 farmers as on rural development programs for the 20 counties losing the most population. And the South's cotton and rice farmers get even fatter checks than Middle America's grain farmers, which is why Korth managed to persuade the Nebraska Farm Bureau...
...family out of poverty after her father's untimely death. A strikingly beautiful folk dancer from the north Indian state of Haryana, the then 25-year-old had turned down several offers to act in regional-language films because she came from a conservative family, consenting instead to wed a Toronto-based astrologer she knew through her maternal uncle. "I agreed to marry a man I had never met, thinking he would take me to a better life in Canada," she says. "Once settled there, I would take my two younger sisters and our mother, too." After a six-week...
...Death of Colonel Blimp, Powell cast Kerr as the three women who, over a 40-year span, weave a romantic spell over the lead character. And over the co-director: Powell fell in love with her. During the shoot, on her 21st birthday, Powell proposed marriage. (They never wed.) In 1947, the Powell-Pressburger Black Narcissus brought Kerr to Hollywood's attention, and she was signed by MGM, where she quickly earned her first Oscar nomination as Spencer Tracy's alcoholic wife in Edward...