Word: stilts
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...Apple Circus and a mother who is a fifth-generation equestrian, Binder began his circus career at age four when he played what he describes as “the cute kid” in a variety of circus acts. Two years ago, the circus needed a stilt-walker, and Binder volunteered. But Binder’s life wasn’t all just circus fun. On top of performing two shows each day, Max also attended school five days a week, inside what he calls “a pop-up trailer that resembled a sardine...
...reveling in a place where rules are broken, where physics plays games--Look, my cup is floating. They swam through the Columbia's passageways like happy dolphins, thrilled with their good fortune, doing somersaults. This came naturally to David Brown, who in an earlier life was a tumbler and stilt walker in the circus and rode a 7-ft. unicycle before he settled down to be a flight surgeon and naval aviator. That turned out to be good training: "What I really learned from that," he said once, "is kind of the teamwork and the safety and the staying focused...
...loops 1,100 km from the country's heart through some of the wildest and most inaccessible terrain on earth. Cutting through mountain ranges, international borders, steamy jungles, swamps, lakes and flood plains, the Sepik monster nurtures some of p.n.g.'s most ancient tribes, who still live in tiny stilt huts and brave the river's treacherous currents, and large saltwater crocodiles, in their slender carved canoes...
...Highlands have abundant coffee fields, pepper farms and rubber trees, but much of that recent prosperity has bypassed the Montagnards?French for "mountain dwellers"?who live in grievous poverty in tin-walled homes or rickety wooden stilt houses. They say their land has been encroached upon by Vietnamese migrants from the lowlands and that they have been subjected to religious persecution because many follow a form of Protestantism that isn't officially sanctioned...
...Ksor, Kok Ksor's mother, lives in a ramshackle stilt house in Ayun Pa district. Sounding exhausted and heartbroken, she wants to speak not of the son who went to America in 1974 and whom the government blames for all the trouble?"I barely know his face," she says?but of two other sons who have been missing since Easter. "I am very worried," she says softly. "Do you know where they...