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Maria Garcia is as hip as any 11-year-old in Seoul, Seattle or Sydney. Here at the Lomada School on La Gomera, the second-smallest of Spain's seven Canary Islands, she has a cell phone tucked into the waistband of her trousers, which leave a fashionably bare patch of tanned tummy. But Maria and her classmates are also masters of a form of low-tech communication that doesn't require batteries or microwaves. Along with about 1,800 other schoolchildren on this rugged volcanic island, Maria is a student of El Silbo, the Gomera whistle, a substitute language...
...even Bol and Bradley’s combined 15 feet of sheer, gangly humanity could fill the void for the rest of us, it seemed. I considered chanting “Rufio, Rufio” a la the movie Hook but that plan foolishly fell by the wayside. There was the always good “TIMMERMANS” chant (see Part One of this NBA Draft diary) to fall back on, but that was too obscure for anyone else to get. We were at a loss, and the quiet was disheartening...
...later. The memos by government lawyers about torture lead up, not down. But the ones who will pay the price for the scandal will be the soldiers in the field. This is a President who pushes religion to the hilt, but where is the compassion? Adolfo Cruz St. Pardoux la Rivière, France...
...church, becoming quite religious and serving as an altar boy. "I remember him writing me to remember to say my prayers," Peggy recalls. Cam, on the other hand, recalls how John learned to swear in Italian. "That part I do remember. Him coming back from vacation and spouting 'Spaccare la faccia, porco!'" Cam says with a laugh. The phrase roughly translates as "Shove it in your face, pig" and was "probably one of the milder things he learned," says Cam. "I had to learn Italian to get food at the table," John recalls. "I could make a sailor blush...
...cheap--just $10 each--but so far language options are limited to French, Spanish and Japanese. And the software works only on new, third-generation iPods using Mac OS X version 10.2 or later (a Windows version is promised soon). Guess the translation for all that is C'est la vie. --By Jeffrey Ressner