Word: coats
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Before it lands on your back, a cashmere sweater has completed an epic transformation. First, hair must be gathered during the molting season from the inner coat of special goats, the majority of which live in the coldest regions of China and Mongolia. Then the fiber has to be shipped to factories experienced in its production?the best are in Italy and Scotland?where it is spun into yarn, dyed and woven. The scarcity of the raw material has historically ensured a high price for the final product, sealing cashmere's reputation as a luxury fabric...
...Officer was dispatched to take a report of a stolen coat and scarf at Dunster House...
...lose weight using ephedra? You can't. Bush's FDA has banned the over-the-counter supplement. Steroids? You heard the Nanny in Chief. And if you're a scientist researching a touchy subject, be prepared to feel the breath of Big Government down the back of your white coat. Early on in his Administration, the President--not scientists or patients--decided exactly how far federally funded research into stem cells could go. Cloning technologies? Forget about...
...first chapter? Skip it. Here's a sample: After producer Robert Evans read the screenplay for Sliver, he sent Eszterhas a note telling him how great it was. The note was delivered by a woman wearing only a mink coat. And she carried the note in a place that was not, strictly speaking, a pocket. Oh, and Eszterhas also tells us that he slept with Sharon Stone, and that it wasn't that great. Classy. The trouble with this kind of thing is that it's tasteless without even being...
...whose appetites pointedly contradict his name, is commissioned by the wealthy Parisian Jean Le Viste to design six tapestries glorifying the nobleman's status at court. Nicolas, like most of the characters, is fictional, though a Jean Le Viste did exist in the Middle Ages, and his family's coat of arms appears in the tapestries. Other than that, little is known about the works, so Chevalier imagines that during a consultation at the Le Viste estate, Nicolas meets Jean's estranged wife Genevieve, prim and tense, as well as her nubile and headstrong teenage daughter Claude. Prodded by Genevieve...