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...junkie since I was 12," says Sharrock. But over the years she got tired of products that barely changed from season to season, and she eventually drifted away. Bigelow has brought her back. "They have the stuff here that the fashion magazines talk about," says Sharrock, whose shopping bag is stocked with tiny glass jars of Frederic Fekkai protein conditioner and hair mask. And then she says the thing that must make Fiske's ears tingle: "I'm trading up." --With reporting by Christopher Maag/Columbus
...quietly. "Why are they doing this?" demands Mario Holly, 32, who refused to leave behind his pit bull Irene until Guardsmen relented and took both aboard their huge halftrack truck. "I had enough food. I had enough water. I'm straight [meaning O.K.]," he says, dragging along a plastic bag of belongings. Robert Sanford, 62 and retired, sits on his porch in Uptown, drinking a soda and vowing to defy the evacuation order. "I don't need much," he says. "I got 12 gallons of water in the house. I got those Army meals they handing out--pork and beans...
...words, like Terry Edwards, 47, a veteran funeral director from Eastland, Texas. Although he has volunteered for 11 disasters' aftermaths, including cleaning up the Columbia shuttle crash, he says New Orleans is the worst. In teams of two, Edwards and his comrades open each body bag, inventory the contents, decontaminate for chemical waste, then assess the victim for gunshot wounds or a shattered skull that might indicate murder, not accidental death. Each victim is photographed, with attention given to such identifiers as long-healed scars, birthmarks and tattoos. Fingerprinting and dental imaging follow before the forensic specialists collect samples...
...hilltop and surrounded by the rolling clay slopes of the Crete Senesi, truffles are truly a village affair: there are 50 truffle hunters out of a population of 350, according to Mayor Michele Boscagli. From September to December they hunt for the delicacy, feast on a portion of their bag, and sell the rest to local merchants and restaurants. San Giovanni d'Asso holds an annual Truffle Festival in November. "It's not run by merchants," says Boscagli. "Our festival is completely managed by the truffle hunters...
...with its praise for the healthier method of staying in physical shape - getting off one's duff and exercising. It was courageous of Time to point out our laziness and make the connection between obesity and our passion for convenience. Being healthy takes more than putting down the feed bag. It means getting off the couch and engaging in forward motion. Gee, what a novel concept! James C. Nill Detroit Tackling Terrorism Re Time's reporting on the manhunt for and arrest of London's suspected suicide bombers [Aug. 8]: I am a British Asian who has lived...