Word: sisterly
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Among them were Muteguya's mother, sister, brother, sister-in-law and niece. "I tried to stop them, but it was impossible," says Muteguya, surveying the long red-earth mound where they lie buried. "They were indoctrinated in a manner that if you tried to argue with them, they kept quiet. You ended up talking around like a mad person." Muteguya did manage to stop his relatives from selling the small family farm and late last year tried again to persuade his 16-year-old sister to leave the sect. "She came home to the village a few times...
Details will relaunch in October as a men's-fashion magazine under Conde Nast's newly acquired sister company, Fairchild, which publishes W and Jane. Meanwhile, Maxim, its circulation more than 1.6 million, is the undisputed frat-house president, and it's doubtful anyone can challenge it without embracing the mammarian flat-out. "When Mark and I were at Maxim," says erstwhile Details executive editor Bill Shapiro, "our whole mission in life was to destroy Details, to eat Details for lunch." Mission accomplished, guys...
...environmental issues. Edited by Charles Alexander, the series will culminate just before Earth Day (April 22) in a TIME special edition titled "How to Save the Earth," with articles by such distinguished conservationists as Edward O. Wilson and Richard Leakey, among others. The 2.8 million subscribers of our (kid) sister magazine TIME FOR KIDS will receive their own special issue, called "Kid Heroes for the Planet," featuring projects initiated by kids to save precious places from environmental hazards...
Lowry began her first children's book, based on her memories of her sister's death, in 1976 upon the request of a Houghton Mifflin editor who had seen one of her short stories in a magazine...
...also said that such early tragedies as her older sister's death from cancer and the murder of her childhood best friend later served as inspirations for her early works...