Word: craning
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...especially of shrouding the bridge that crosses the western tip of the Ile de la Cité near the Left Bank's Latin Quarter in Paris. The $2.3 million project, which Christo pays for by selling his plans and sketches, will involve some 450 workers, including bargemen, rock climbers and crane operators, who will begin wrapping the Pont Neuf next month. "People will be obliged to walk on it," observes the Bulgarian-born artist. "I find it extremely poetic." --By Guy D. Garcia
...gathering of sandhill cranes on and around the Moeller farm is one of nature's most spectacular rites of spring. "It is," writes Ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson, "the largest concentration of any species of crane anywhere in the world." In the lifting darkness that precedes sunrise, the sandhills roosting in the shallows might be mistaken for carvings on a stone frieze. Soon the frieze begins to ripple with motion as the cranes stretch their wings and, voices rising, take off in small groups of 20 and 30. For over an hour, the river casts out lines of great gray birds...
...York City last week that Taylor is now working closely with representatives of al-Qaeda to try to destabilize the region. "Al-Qaeda has been in West Africa. It continues to be in West Africa, and Charles Taylor has been harboring members of al-Qaeda," tribunal prosecutor David Crane told a press conference after the president of the tribunal appeared before the Security Council. Chief court investigator Alan White said he has evidence that Taylor "and others" were behind a January assassination attempt on Guinean President Lansana Conte. In addition, he said, Taylor had funneled money from al-Qaeda...
...worry much about keeping fit 100 years ago. In those days 40% of the population was reaping and sowing, herding and mowing its way through life on preindustrial farms. In coastal cities, strong-shouldered stevedores were loading and unloading ships dawn to dusk without a container or stacking crane in sight. Builders, lumberjacks and railroad men drove nails or sawed wood with their muscles, not power tools. And for those doing the washing, cooking and scrubbing at home, life wasn't so dainty either. (Ever pick up one of those 8-lb. solid-metal weights that gave ironing its name...
...block the sun, interfering with the ambient light--war is finally getting its fog. The chaos is astonishingly visceral: you're Joe Grunt, playing your little part in vast events that are beyond your puny ken. This is war the way Tolstoy described it, or Stendhal, or Stephen Crane, seen from the bottom up. Suddenly video games have added a couple more octaves to their emotional register...