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...China has ramped up its textile production and reduced prices (igniting trade tension with the U.S.). Many of the cashmere garments, however, are not made wholly of the downy undercoat of the goat, where the fibers are long and fine. Occasionally these fibers get mixed with hairs from the outer layer, which are short and thick. This translates into less expensive sweaters, but also ones that are coarse and scratchy. They don't drape as sinuously or maintain their shape as well, and they don't provide the lifetime commitment most people seek from their cashmere. They may also...
...time we become aware of what we’re looking at, two main stages of processing have occurred. The first, in which spatial analysis and form recognition occur, takes place in the outer realm of the retina, while the second, in the retina’s inner region, involves temporal analysis and movement detection...
...points out that his falafel sandwiches were recently named on a PBS food documentary as one of the 16 Best Sandwiches in America, and are prepared with eight fresh vegetables and herbs. Sure enough, the insides of Masoud’s falafels are distinctively dark green, with a crunchy outer shell—so light that it’s nearly impossible to distinguish between the baked and fried varieties offered at Sepal. The evening buffet, available Mondays through Wednesdays, presents a basic selection of fatoush salad, hummus and baba ganoush, okra with cilantro and garlic, chicken with sumac, lima...
...said flames probably climbed through a pipe chase—the area between the inner and outer wall where heating and water pipes go from floor to floor—to the upper floors...
...property was called “Dream’s Landing” on the deed was irresistible to my father. It blinded him from the property’s very un-mansion-like faults: broken windows, malfunctioning heating, ancient plumbing, peeling wallpaper and even holes in the outer wall. He was captivated, and I was continually regaled with new stories of the house’s eccentric former owner or the uncharacteristic peppering of Howard Dean posters in this liberal pocket of an otherwise conservative state...