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...tantrum, and was so laid-back that Cruz called him lazy. Proffer a carrot and he wouldn't crunch it like other horses, but nibble at it from your hand. His running style was as straightforward as his personality: bound out of the barrier, cruise to the lead or park just off it, gallop relentlessly to the line. "He had the reflexes of a springbok," says South African Felix Coetzee, the only jockey to have ridden Silent Witness in a race. "The moment you gave him the signal to go, he jumped...
...gamble. The opera house is the final piece of the immensely popular City of Arts and Sciences, a complex of beautifully integrated white buildings, most designed by Calatrava, that includes a planetarium with IMAX cinema and laser dome, a science museum, a botanical garden and Europe's biggest marine park. "An art museum draws a fairly narrow audience, while the City of Arts and Sciences appeals to a much wider range of people," says Julio López Astor, director of the Tourist Office of Spain in Chicago...
...Although he had received some survival training, Xiang Xiang soon found he had been dropped off in a very rough neighborhood. In late December, forest wardens spotted him via one of a string of video monitors positioned throughout the park. He had been bitten by a wild panda in a fight for territory, says Zhang Hemin, director of the Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda at Wolong. "Our researchers found him and brought him back. The doctor treated him briefly, then sent him back to the wild." Unfortunately for Xiang Xiang, the tough-love approach only compounded...
...Sofia brims with Old Country attractions--the changing of the presidential guard, streets made from yellow bricks gifted by Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I--but the city of 1.2 million is compact enough for visitors to venture to locales off the beaten track, like the communist monument turned skate park in Borisova Gradina and the Ladies' Market, where average-income Sofians do their shopping. The marketplace of storefronts and open-air kiosks sells everything from clementines to wallpaper to negligees to banitsa, a flaky pastry stuffed with the feta-like "white cheese" used in many Bulgarian dishes. One kiosk sells...
...RIESMAN ’08 of Oak Park, Ill. and Quincy House Arts Chair...