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RESTAURANTS: At chi-chi Amici, a small Italian restaurant, reservations are pretty much a must. In addition to an above average Italian meal your $100 will probably get you some star gazing as well. Visiting stars such as Leo and Jacko have sat down there to enjoy the duck. To eat anything that won't require taking out a second and third mortgage, try trekking over the bridge to West Palm Beach, where affordable fare is the norm. Eateries on Clematis Street, the heart of downtown, embellish standard TGI Friday's fare with sundried tomatoes, raspberries or both...
...island said it would let the Breitling Orbiter 3 gas and hot air balloon pass over its airspace today en route to a world record. Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Britain's Brian Jones--the latest heirs of an aeronautical tradition that began in 1783 when a sheep, a duck and a rooster first went up in a Montgolfier balloon at Versailles France--are planning to land in North Africa on Saturday, and become the first men to circumnavigate the globe nonstop in a balloon. The Breitling, which headed south and then east from Switzerland on March 1, raced across...
Lewinsky: I kind of think of a sort of cuckoo clock and--I don't know why this image [comes to mind]--a sort of a duck that comes down at 12 noon whose head spins around and sticks its tongue in and out and flails its arms...
...This problem is easily overcome. Install a checker at the door-if you inspect people's bags and jackets, hardly any food or drink will escape into the stacks. Besides, people are sneaking food and drink into the library as it is. A wet book is not a dead duck, but an undercaffeinated student is a miserable thing...
Years ago, I put on the record what I had learned about blue jeans at Southwest High School, in Kansas City, Mo.: "Anybody who wears jeans that are not Levi or Lee is a nerd, a creep, a wonk, and walks like a duck." What binds Weyrich and me together, I realized, is that we believe in an absolute standard of behavior, what used to be called the eternal verities; we deplore what he would probably call relativist morals and I would call a lot of people being willing to go around dressed like dorks...