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What's the best part of being a fighter? "When you're in that ring, you can float," De La Hoya says. "You can move around on your toes and feel invincible." Worst part? "The diet," says the welterweight (147 lb. max) who follows a strict organic regimen. "It's horrible...
...convoy of 18 SUVs pulls to a halt on the narrow road above Sanjiang, Wenchuan county, Sichuan, the gleeful shrieks of an excited crowd float upwards through the autumnal mist. The vehicles have made the three-hour journey from the provincial capital Chengdu, spending two hours of it crawling through countryside affected by the cataclysmic earthquake in May. We say countryside - in fact, the view through the windows is an unsettling inversion of what the term normally evokes. Giant fissures sunder the hills and there are yawning voids where roads should be. Broad swaths of boulders and debris remain...
...Felix was just released into the air. He popped, of course, so the next year officials released balloons again, but incorporated release valves designed to let the helium leak out slowly over the course of a week. The balloons' release received much publicity; Macy's claimed that they would float hundreds of miles away from New York before landing softly in fields or people's yards. Stitched into balloons was a return address, and those who found one could return it to Macy's for a $100 reward. Unfortunately their flights weren't so peaceful. Out of five balloons, three...
...space of silence that we can fill.”The idea of emptiness runs through Chan’s visual work. In “5th Light,” one of Chan’s “easy” pieces, shadows projected on the floor float in a triangle of light. Like the bare text of “Godot,” the shadows allow the viewer to access something that cannot be faced straightforwardly. “Some things we simply cannot look at directly,” Chan said, but with shadows...
...wait for the winds to be just right," says Choi Sung Young, who was able to take advantage of rare southerly winds on the peninsula on Thursday to launch nearly a dozen gas-filled balloons, containing thousands of flyers pillorying Kim Jong Il's regime, and watch them float toward the border. (See pictures of The Rise of Kim Jong...