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...Over the past several years, China has ramped up its textile production and reduced prices. Many of its cashmere garments, however, are not made wholly of the downy undercoat of the goat, where the fibers are long and fine. Occasionally these fibers get mixed with hairs from the outer layer, which are short and thick. This means cheaper sweaters but also ones that are coarse and scratchy. They don't drape as sinuously or maintain their shape as well, and they don't provide the lifetime commitment most people seek from their cashmere. They may also be the product...
Cabrito--baby goat. I'm inviting everyone at the summit to eat with me at my favorite cabrito restaurant...
...these risks haven't slowed the run on sex-enhancing nostrums, from herbal supplements like horny goat weed to topical Viacreme, many of them sold on the Web. How good are they? Probably not much better than the monkey testicles worried men had sutured onto their own testicles in the 1920s. ConsumerLab, a White Plains, N.Y., testing firm, found when it sampled Web-peddled human growth hormone (HGH) supplements that they contained no more HGH than a hamburger...
...former Baathists, but for Arab nationalists in Iraq and outside it. Whatever posture Saddam takes in whatever tribunal he appears in, he will likely never live down that image of him scruffy, defeated, opening his mouth for the doctor like a good boy. "It's like he's a goat," one Iraqi delighted, watching the images of Saddam being searched...
Over the past several years, China has ramped up its textile production and reduced prices (igniting trade tension with the U.S.). Many of the cashmere garments, however, are not made wholly of the downy undercoat of the goat, where the fibers are long and fine. Occasionally these fibers get mixed with hairs from the outer layer, which are short and thick. This translates into less expensive sweaters, but also ones that are coarse and scratchy. They don't drape as sinuously or maintain their shape as well, and they don't provide the lifetime commitment most people seek from their...