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...Number of rubber bath toys thought to be streaming toward the eastern seaboard of the U.S. They fell off a container ship in the Pacific...
Half a dozen climbers, wearing nothing more than shorts and rubber-soled climbing shoes, are gathered around a large boulder in Camp 4 in Yosemite National Park. They are all trying to crack Midnight Lightning. With its 20-ft. overhanging rock face and minuscule handholds, it presents one of the best-known bouldering challenges in the country. As yet another climber burns out after only two moves and falls back onto the mattress-like crash pad, the talk turns to the impact of climbing on the natural environment--a hot topic among climbers. Kurt Hack, 37, from South Bend...
Certainly the depredations of a bunch of rubber-soled, chalk-bag-toting rock rats are minor compared with forest clear-cutting or strip mining. But because climbers are drawn to some of the nation's most spectacular landscapes--the Tetons in Wyoming, the Sawtooths in Idaho, Joshua Tree National Park in California--their footprints are closely scrutinized, and a nationwide debate is under way between climbers and federal land-management agencies on what and where people should be permitted to climb...
...make her characters memorable, Kitagawa incorporates in her scripts conversations and events from her own life. Bouncing a small rubber ball out of the window, as Minami and Sena (Takuya Kimura) do in Long Vacation, for instance, is what she and her brother used to do at home. "Some writers just write to attract an audience because they think the content will appeal and not because they're personally connected to the material," says the 41-year-old mother of one. "But in my case, every drama comes from...
...hottest accessories around is the "jelly kelly," a rubber, cartoon-colored version of Hermes' famous Kelly bag. Finding Nemo is easier than finding this bag: it sold out in two days at Steven Stolman in Southampton, N.Y. The tongue-in-chic bags ($60 to $145) are made by Chiarini, a small firm in Florence, Italy. Says Stolman: "It's a great concept to do the world's most expensive handbag in the world's cheapest material." --By Kate Betts