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...Such political antics made little sense to Wania Monteiro, an 18-year-old from Cape Verde, one of the few residents of her African island nation to devote her life to tossing ribbons, hoops, clubs and rubber balls. It's hard for many Olympic fans to get overly excited about rhythmic gymnastics, a so-called sport that involves sequin-attired women contorting their bodies as if in a Cirque du Soleil performance. But Monteiro took her Olympic responsibility seriously, often training in a dilapidated gym with ceilings too low to accommodate a proper hoop or ball toss. In last week...
...National Restaurant, tel: (251) 1 509 912, located in a maze of dusty side streets off Bole Road in the capital, Addis Ababa. The food is served on injera, a large piece of flat bread made from tef, a grain unique to the region. Injera may look like foam rubber, but its slightly sour taste is the perfect complement to spicy meat and vegetable dishes. Use chunks of injera to scoop up lamb and chicken cooked in kai wat, a fiery red sauce, or alicha wat, a milder yellow sauce. Wash it all down with a bottle of the local...
...always, cons are also great sources of news and gossip. While wandering among the rubber-suited goths and picking through the Japanese toys your intrepid reporter unearthed a few interesting items of note: Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller appeared together to provide a glimpse of the up-coming "Sin City" movie starring Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke and Jessica Alba. The filmmakers stressed how closely they stuck to Miller's original comic series, resulting in some impressive super-high contrast black and white art direction and some wincingly cornball "hardboiled" dialogue - the hallmarks of Miller's late work. Monsters of manga...
...moment, quickly interrupted and replaced by the megaphoned voice of a police officer saying that the fire marshal had closed off the convention for the night. All hopes seemed to be dashed—and then a heavily accented voice rose over the hum of the crowd, and a rubber dog puppet rose over its heads...
Explaining that the rubber bird represented would-be first lady Teresa Heinz Kerry, Smigel enacted a quick kiss between the puppets...