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...budget agency STA Travel, which has hundreds of branches worldwide. In addition to booking flights and travel packages, the website (www.sta.com) lists top hostels and budget hotels, and offers discounts for STA members. Hosteling International (www.hihostels.com) has ratings, discounts and general information - it also sells "communication packages" with 24-hour travel assistance, low-cost long-distance calls and free e-mail accounts that students can access over the phone. There's no excuse for not calling...
...International Festival, which runs from Aug. 15 to Sept. 5, appeals to the highbrow set. This year's 160 performances include everything from a new production of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice to Paul Claudel's Le Soulier de Satin, an 11-hour epic play set in 15th century Spain. Both the Hanover State Opera and Cleveland Orchestra will be in town. And there's a major retrospective of Antony Tudor's choreography...
Each Tuesday and Friday afternoon, four girls, ages 7 to 14, settled in our pine-paneled living room for an hour. Ever observant and curious, I remained quiet but was eager to create something too. Sensing my interest, my mother encouraged me. Soon I was the littlest learner in those sessions. I eventually made some of my own clothing. I would draw the patterns on paper, cut the fabric according to the design and assemble the pieces on a sewing machine...
...sample for yourself, make the four-hour drive from Seattle to Walla Walla. The road laces through the spectacular Cascades, past cloud-ensconced Mount Rainier, and then the land rounds out into desert-like hills that look as if they were covered by fuzzy wool. About 210 miles from Seattle is the Red Mountain area and the impressive Hedges Cellars winery. Don't leave the region without sipping the hard-to-find wines of Hightower Cellars, just down the road from Hedges...
...unnecessary because the appendix turns out to be normal. The new technique uses a radioactive tracer that binds to an infection-fighting white blood cell. Doctors locate the tracer using an imaging device called a gamma camera. In trials, the technique diagnosed nearly 100% of appendicitis cases within an hour. The tool may also be able to pinpoint hard-to-locate infections in other tissues. --By David Bjerklie