Word: palming
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...with this big tarp on it and I offered the driver $70 for it - that's what I had in my pocket - and we took it off the truck and we strung it up between two tall bamboo trees and held it taut with the help of two smaller palm trees and that's how I painted it in the jungle ? " Later he added, "I always tell young painters, 'Paint outside! If it's cold, wear a coat!'" What the crowds loved most was a quality in his booming voice that has largely disappeared in the rush to cool postmodernism...
RELEASED. LIONEL TATE, 16, after serving three years in prison for the murder of a 6-year-old playmate when he was 12; in West Palm Beach, Fla. When Tate, the youngest defendant in the country to receive a life sentence, had his first-degree murder conviction overturned on appeal, he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in return for a sentence of time served. He claimed he killed Tiffany Eunick accidentally while imitating wrestling moves from TV, but now says he jumped from a staircase and accidentally landed on her chest...
Keller is painfully aware of the influence of the media. Born in California, he began working in a Palm Beach, Fla., restaurant run by his mother, and after serving apprenticeships at top restaurants in France, arrived in New York City in the monied mid-'80s, attracting a lot of media attention when he opened his restaurant Rakel in 1986. But when the market crashed in 1987 and Rakel struggled, Keller was savaged in the press. "My credibility was low after Rakel failed. I was labeled the chef who couldn't control food or labor costs...
...Spare the Civet! The Chinese government has begun culling masked palm civet cats in Guangdong wildlife markets after tests suggested a link to a possible SARS case in that southern Chinese province [Jan. 19]. Surely the first SARS outbreak should have taught the Chinese to modify their eating habits. Severe penalties should be imposed on restaurants still serving civet. The thought of thousands of these pretty creatures being slaughtered is extremely distressing. Can't we call upon organizations concerned with animal welfare to request a release into the wild of civets and the complete ban on their capture...
Milhon is a biologist at Azusa Pacific University (A.P.U.), the U.S.'s second largest evangelical Christian college, with 8,200 students attending its palm-tree-lined campus in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles, and seven satellite locations. Enrollment in the nation's 104 "intentionally Christ-centered colleges," as the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities calls them, has risen 27% since 1997. That's more than three times as fast as the growth at all four-year schools. A.P.U. is booming--its student population is up 53% over the same period...