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Trinity Hill, a short drive from the Hawthorne Country House, provides a good introductory lesson on viticulture. The winery is at the heart of the Gimblett Gravels, a 850-hectare triangle of stony ground that was first planted with vines nine years ago. The gravel reflects heat back onto the grapes, helping them ripen even in a wet year, something all too common on New Zealand's lush North Island...
...weird cousins from Northern California used to keep a brick in their toilet tank to reduce water flow? Remember how you thought they were crazy? Well, they might have been, but they were right about conserving water. "It does help to put bricks or a quart jug filled with gravel, for example, into the toilet tank," says Swistock. "A heavy item like that displaces a quart or more of water - and that's one less quart of water the toilet needs to refill itself." Once you've mastered water displacement, try another, even more challenging conservation measure: Don't flush...
...Then the real action begins. The tattoo awakens demons, and Niwet, who spent time in jail for manslaughter, is on all fours on the gravel outside the temple, blood and ink oozing from his back. He bares his teeth, growls, rises with a feral roar and hurtles himself toward a row of monks chanting on a makeshift altar. But between him and the praying monks are 41 soldiers and volunteers recruited to subdue the devotees. They wrestle Niwet to the ground and one rubs his earlobe. That drives the demons away...
...York City. Famed for her celebrity portraits as well as her extensive work in the Soviet Union and China, Morath spent over half a century with the Magnum photo agency. She produced more than two dozen books, including several collaborations with her husband. DIED. HILDEGARD KNEF, 76, gravel-voiced German star of post-WWII era films who found later success as a singer in musicals and as an author; in Berlin. Perhaps best known for her role in Germany's first movie after the war, Die M?rder Sind Unter Uns (The Murderers Are Among Us), the versatile blond leading lady...
...known project: the IBOT wheelchair. Developed for and funded by Johnson & Johnson, the IBOT is Kamen's bid to "give the disabled the same kind of mobility the rest of us take for granted"--a six-wheel machine that goes up and down curbs, cruises effortlessly through sand or gravel, and even climbs stairs. More amazing still, the IBOT features something called standing mode, in which it rises up on its wheels and lifts its occupant to eye level while maintaining balance with such stability that it can't be knocked over even by a violent shove. Kamen gets annoyed...