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...rather the cello case. It is not that someone has suddenly come up with a way to make them wolf-proof, but one of the array of stories that follow in this European Journey special report is about a man who makes cases no Russian wolf would want to chew. Igor Pantelic, part Croat, part Dutch, was using glass fiber to repair speedboats when a musician friend suggested the material would be good to encase his cello: strong, light and capable of being molded to the peculiar shape of each instrument. Today, Pantelic numbers among his clients...
...news for manufacturing, but you knew that). Wednesday gives us auto and truck sales for July, and construction spending for June and National Association Purchasing Managers for July (see CPMI, above). Thursday sets the table with weekly Initial Unemployment Claims and a new four-week rolling average to chew our nails over. And Friday brings it all back home with July?s non-farm payrolls, hourly earnings, and average workweek - and the headliner, which is expected to tick up once again to 4.6 percent...
...ancestors. They also differ in shape from the teeth of all known fossil and modern apes. Even the way in which the teeth had been worn down was telling. Explains Haile-Selassie's thesis adviser, Berkeley paleontologist Tim White: "Apes all sharpen their upper canines as they chew. Hominids don't." The new creature's back teeth are larger than a chimp's too, while the front teeth are narrower, suggesting that its diet included a variety of fibrous foods, rather than the fruits and soft leaves that chimps prefer...
...tiny cluster of fanatics, "Ghost World," has become the most anticipated movie of the summer. Sweat beads pop from their brows. They chew their lower lip and stare into space because fans of Dan Clowes, who created "Ghost World" as a series in his comicbook "Eightball," and who co-wrote the screenplay, are pessimists by definition. It really could be awful. Well folks, you can now unclench your nervous fists about any "Hollywood bastardization" and get ready to enjoy a nearly perfect cinematic adaptation of Clowes' cranky spirit...
...memoir of an Israeli chicken kibbutz. The experience not only revealed the storyteller's true sexual orientation, but showed that even immersion in the hell of the mass poultered won't turn one off the bird. "Oh no," he said. "You'll still eat chicken, and you'll chew real slow...