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That's how Karen DeSemple, 40, felt when she was carrying her third, and last, child. "I spent many days in front of the mirror looking at my belly," she says. Her company, Eternal Maternal, is now one of several that sell belly-casting kits for making plaster memories, which many women decorate, hang in nurseries and consider heirlooms...
...moved to New York, I thought it would be a good idea for him to go back to Baghdad to write a sequel around the fifth anniversary of the war. I didn't have to press him, because he'll tell anyone who asks that he misses Iraq. Having spent five years there, he's deeply invested in the future of that troubled nation...
...Pope's admiration for the U.S. has deep roots. Unlike John Paul II, who was intellectually and theologically fully formed when he met his first Americans, Ratzinger first observed them when he was 18. As a defeated German soldier, he spent three months in a pow camp but was then allowed to return home and witness one of the great modern acts of charity, the rebuilding of Germany by an occupying force that could just as easily have exacted revenge. Cardinal William Levada, the Californian whom Benedict tapped as his successor at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith...
...helping in its struggle for independence. Then there's Somaliland, which has been independent since 1991 and is taking advice from ID on how to gain international recognition. "You should be engaging with all groups," says Ross, "not just governments sitting in offices and embassies." After a career spent deciding the fates of people who weren't even in the room, Ross gives the voiceless a chance to have their say--before they find more drastic ways to be heard...
...fact, the two were busy making an album. “We spent a lot of nights during college working on this project with the intention being that—as opposed to bands that play around for several years and build a local following and tour a lot—that we would just have an album that was good enough to stand on its own,” he says...