Word: duckness
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Dozens of alligators duck and dodge airboats at the Sabine Wildlife Refuge, where the cleanup from Hurricane Rita is just beginning nearly a year after the storm hit the Texas-Louisiana border. Rita struck less than a month after Katrina, forcing New Orleans evacuees to flee further inland. Rita's storm surge demolished coastal Louisiana towns and turned this southwest Louisiana marsh into a toxic trash heap, leaving fields littered with everything from flip-flops and shampoo bottles to refrigerators and entire 18-wheelers. One of about 3,000 trash piles is 5 miles long and half a mile wide...
...Amangani defines itself further with an unlikely fusion of Asian-inspired elegance and rustic grandeur. Slate floors and minimalist decor lighten redwood-paneled rooms warmed by log fires. Rawhide-and-rattan chairs are paired with black terrazzo tables in the 65-seat restaurant, whose eclectic menu stretches from Peking duck to elk steak. A 35-m swimming pool and whirlpool accompany full spa facilities. Originality and exclusivity makes Amangani a big hit with celebrity guests, but Zecha insists its real draw is its nonflashy approach. "Just don't say it's Zen-like," he urges. "It's so pretentious...
...ring. "I wanted to give the musicians the feeling of absolute power," says Garcia. And where the food was always a bit of a joke - "A thousand flies can't be wrong, sir," was Scott's fond quip - its refitted kitchen can now produce a decent crab risotto or duck breast as part of a two-course meal that costs $42. On top of ticket prices that leap from $45 to $85 for the likes of Wynton Marsalis, free jazz this ain't. But when the music starts, cynicism melts before the club's enduring charms: the spellbinding intimacy...
...Even if it's not as brutal as Shavit's, the judgment of Olmert's leadership by Israelis across the political spectrum may not be much more forgiving. A prime minister dependent on a diverse coalition to keep him in power may have been turned into a lame duck by the indecisive outcome of the clash with Hizballah...
...Highway; this morning, reports have come in of graffiti on road signs on the outskirts of town. Last Christmas there was a spate of thefts of solar- powered garden lights that Taylor wasn't able to crack. "They're unsolved crimes," he says, as is the disappearance of a duck from a local house around the same time: "I don't think it was a fox." There was a murder in Stratford just three doors down from the police sta-tion a few years ago, when a teenaged boy stabbed a man in his 50s after an argument about money...