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...knit. Because I held my needles too tightly, my would-be square looked more like a parallelogram. At the end of my stay, Anna presented me with a hearty wool blanket knitted from the squares. With characteristic Shetlander modesty, she hesitated to honor my request for her to stitch her initials in the corner. "Oh, why would I do that?" she said, laughing. It was not as if I would forget where it came from. But I wanted the reminder just the same...
...LILO AND STITCH In this film, young Lilo, a Hawaiian girl with a deep sense of ohana (family), befriends a stray dog on the run from another galaxy. What better melodies to accompany their adventures in the tropics than Lilo's favorite Elvis hits...
...their income. Second, there's a time factor involved; globalization may reduce poverty in the long run, but the long run might be too long to bear. Children working in sweatshops today gain little by being told that in 20 years' time their daughters will not have to stitch garments in a stinking hovel. In a recent paper Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University (whose zeal for free trade makes mine look Episcopal) puts it this way: "There is legitimate impatience at the speed with which globalization will deliver social agendas. We want to go faster...
...galvanized two long-standing adversaries to agree to a timetable for resolving their differences. Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders Glafcos Clerides and Rauf Denktash said they would meet three times a week over the next few months in the hope of hammering out a power-sharing deal that could stitch back the divided parts of Cyprus. Both leaders agreed to keep meeting until June. Turkey has threatened to annex the north of the island if Cyprus joins the E.U. without agreement by both parties...
Walking, in fact, may be the perfect exercise. For starters, it's one of the safest things you can do with your body. It's much easier on the knees than running and, beyond an occasional stitch in the side, doesn't trigger untoward side effects. "Regular physical activity is probably as close to a magic bullet as we will come in modern medicine," says Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "If everyone in the U.S. were to walk briskly 30 minutes a day, we could cut the incidence of many...