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...just 19, Suzzy married Gershon Aka, a bank clerk 12 years her senior. The first few years of married life were a strange combination of personal joys and national disaster. Suzzy and her husband had two children--son Jubilant, now 25, and daughter Nutifafe (Peace), 23--but drought and hunger were tightening their grip. "You would go to the forest and search for cassava," says Suzzy. "Whatever you could find...
...while, Parks, 50, commuted home to her husband in Laguna Niguel, Calif. Between airplanes and meetings and hotels, she maintained a constant habit: walking. "It was the one thing that kept me relatively fit--and sane," she says. As exercise methods go, walking requires not much in the way of accessories, yet Parks often found herself wishing for snazzier pedometers, age-appropriate shorts and a walking pal or two in a strange city. Her aha moment came in 2003: "This, I realized, was my passion." She quit Kinko's and started WalkStyles, a Web company offering equipment, apparel and networks...
Career changes can affect family members dramatically too. When Reid accepted the P&G job, she uprooted her doctor husband from Richmond, Va., along with their two young children. The couple eventually divorced. Ruxin's move forced his new wife (the trailing spouse, in human resources--speak) to make a career change of her own. Alissa, 32, once managed wellness programs for Goldman Sachs; today she is about to open a swanky café in Rwanda's capital. In his reporting on the "true stories of people who turned their obsessions into professions," Josh Piven, author of The Escape Artists...
...Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie have celebrated the Jewish holiday of Purim by dressing as all but which of these...
...highlight people that really pushed the fashion envelope in the best and worst ways, both intellectually, and un-intellectually (coughBeyoncécough). Thus I give you:THE BEST AND WORST DRESSED OF THE 2007 OSCARS:THE BESTNICOLE KIDMAN:Nicole Kidman may be anorexic. She also may have a drunk husband who cheats on her. It’s also weird that she hasn’t been photographed with her kids since 2004. However, her Oscar frock was brilliant. Kidman got a lot of criticism for her Balenciaga couture creation, but personally I thought it was exceptional. I loved...