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...being an M.P.) Meanwhile, the first signs emerged that Ukraine's orange revolution may be seeping across the border into Russia. Last week in the Siberian city of Barnaul, the capital of the Altai region some 3,500 km east of Moscow, more than 100 journalists published an open letter of protest against what they said was pressure from the Kremlin to smear Vladimir Ryzhkov, an M.P. from Altai and an outspoken opponent of President Vladimir Putin. According to Valery Savinkov, editor-in-chief of the Altai news agency Bankfax, "A gentlemen from Moscow came [in October] to offer...
...Take the letter D, for instance. Turn it to one side and it's a laughing mouth, to the other and it's a frog's eye. Upside-down, it's a teacup handle. Or take Q. On its side, it's a magnifying glass or a tag on a dog's collar; upside-down it's a pendulum on a clock. This is hands-on entertainment (and education) in which part of the pleasure is physically rotating the book to follow each letter's permutations. For adults, Ernst's geometric designs and striking hues may evoke the color-field...
...flap to see what's underneath, especially in Wells' bright, cartoony drawings? Max covets a Sand-Spitter motorcycle with Bigfoot tires like Wilma Warthog's, so even though it's July, he writes to Santa Claus requesting one. "Nobody writes to Santa in the summer," Ruby reminds him. His letter is diverted to Grandma, who, since it consists solely of tire tracks, misunderstands and replies with a picture of a bulldozer. Kids will enjoy being way ahead of both Max and Grandma on this. Max tries twice more, adding splotches of red to his tire tracks, but Grandma still doesn...
...much more specialized," Bishop explains during a tour of his company's 300,000-sq.-ft. factory in Washougal, Wash. Built in 1910, it's one of the country's last functional woolen mills. Custom products made here include vintage baseball uniforms, woolen sleeves for high school and college letter jackets, and commemorative Jacquard blankets and dance shawls for Native American tribes. To create environmentally friendly upholstery for office furniture, Pendleton spent months testing nontoxic dyes and other biodegradable materials to meet strict safety criteria. "I don't think you could certify that or control all those variables...
Williams’s recording made Warren realize that all she wanted to do was write that album. She wrote a letter to the band explaining why she felt they had to do Presenting the Great Unknowns. Only then did the band’s sound start to come together to lay down the foundation for their current musical sensibility...