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...starred in Superman I-IV, each was a feature-length film shown in movie theaters. Today most viewers track the travails of Clark Kent on the small screen in the hit WB television series Smallville, with a teenage Kent played by TOM WELLING. Reeve, who was paralyzed in a horseback-riding accident in 1995, will make a guest appearance on the show on Feb. 25, playing a scientist who is researching the planet Krypton. At the end of the show, Reeve and Welling will appear in a public-service announcement for the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation...
...provisions of the NAFTA accord. But many of Mexico's farmers are trying to stem the flood of heavily subsidized U.S. produce, especially apples, pork and chicken parts. Last month thousands of Mexican protesters threatened to block border crossings, and a few burst into their country's Congress on horseback. U.S. poultry producers, concerned that Mexico will erect such nontariff barriers as additional health inspections on chicken, have worked with U.S. officials to offer a five-year extension and gradual phase-out of the tariff on chicken drumsticks and thighs, which dropped from 49% to nada this month...
...though, he can't escape being a teacher. Taking a few minutes off from a particularly tricky horseback-riding scene in the dazzling Phobjika Valley, Khyentse Norbu explains his attempts to realize a Buddhist teaching that calls for blending elegant behavior and outrageousness. "You have to be a little outrageous," he says, "or else you become enslaved to society. But at the same time, if you eschew society altogether you can have no connection to other people. And then you can't be an effective teacher." As he speaks, the crew bickers heatedly about how to deal with a recalcitrant...
...Boston police officer who, in a painful but hilarious scene, fell off his horse while attempting to restore order to the Harvard crowd that was storming the field. With cops on horseback tipping over left and right, who needs goalposts...
...bowl of kumys, the bitter local tipple made from fermented mare's milk. The yurtstay is not a cushy experience: toilets are outdoor squat-style; there are no showers, and you wash from a bucket. With the nearest telephone several hours away, my days were filled with hiking and horseback riding in edelweiss-speckled meadows. Evenings, by gaslight, consisted largely of food and drink. Round flatbread was roughly torn and piled high on a low table. Fish fresh from the lake, noodles and pickled cabbage?all smothered in sour cream?were served up as we sat around the low table...