Word: trunk
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...driving home from a long day's work as an officer in Iraq's new security force when gunmen pulled him over. Two white Oldsmobiles screeched around his Nissan pickup, and four men armed with AK-47 machine guns grabbed Hadi, blindfolded him and stuffed him into the trunk of a car. They drove him to a safe house in Fallujah, where, for five days in early August, he was tortured and interrogated by some of the insurgents who control the town. His captors, he says, beat his feet and legs with a pipe until he could no longer feel...
...worth of merchandise in just one hour. But this year has been different. This year Kors says his wealthy clientele is out of control--they're spending like it's 1999. One New Yorker ordered two pairs of gold-beaded pants for $8,900 each. At a trunk show in Short Hills, N.J., Kors sold five purple mink ponchos for $7,825 each. Like many purveyors of luxury goods, Kors has seen his business increase 40% in the past year. And that's not because he's selling a lot of T shirts and jeans. "Even younger people are buying...
Will the strategy work a third time? So far, it seems to be catching on. At Kors' first personal appearance at a trunk show in St. Louis, Mo., more than 400 customers showed up to shop, despite a power outage. "I know it's going to be a huge seller," says Kal Ruttenstein, the fashion director of Bloomingdale's. "He's very smart, and he's a good designer, and he has finally become a mogul with big money guys behind him." All the more reason the stores are betting on Kors...
...That might not sound like a breakthrough, but more strength in her trunk would significantly ease the pain in Davis' joints. And she's not alone in pinning her hopes on Huang. In three years, Huang says, his cell-transplant surgery has helped nearly 500 paraplegics and quadriplegics regain functions that received medical wisdom said were lost forever. Word of his success has spread, and Huang has already drawn 40 patients from the U.S., with about 200 more Americans on the waiting list. Near the hospital, a dozen recovering foreign patients have turned a hotel's fifth floor into...
...West. "People tend to think of forests as pretty slow changing," says Craig Allen, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. "But once certain thresholds are exceeded, very rapid changes can occur." In some cases, thirsting trees perish because their circulatory systems--the long tubular columns in the trunk that transport water from the roots to the crown--collapse. In other cases, the trees become so weak they can no longer fend off insects and disease...