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...uses an aluminum wrist cane to walk across the expansive living room of his Mercer Island, Wash., home. He walks surprisingly quickly, despite the ar thritis and 22 operations that have left his left leg 1 Yi in. shorter than his right. He cannot stand for more than seven minutes at a time without great pain. Says...
...making of the picture kept being put off, and the stockbroker's son from Yakima, Wash., held on to his dream of playing Paul Atreides, the charismatic messiah of the Dune pentalogy...
...feature water-related history, culture and technology. The water theme has provided a natural cue-if one is needed-for an Aquacade, styled after Billy Rose's hit of the 1939 New York World's Fair. The most popular attraction for children so far is the Kiddie Wash, which sprays, brushes, rinses and dries young visitors like a car laundry. With the city's near tropical summer temperatures, parents may insist on accompanying their offspring for a dousing...
...Sherman family in Manhattan no longer huddles reverently in front of an ordinary boob tube that sits in the corner like a Buddha. Instead, the Shermans laze back in their den and let a wave of sight and sound wash over them from a new $16,000 audio-video system that does just about everything but get up and fetch the beer and popcorn. When Advertising Executive Sherman watches a football game on the new set, the clamor of the crowd blares at him from four speakers installed around the room, and larger-than-life players scramble across...
...task is formidable: smuggling ploys are varied and ingenious. U.S. Customs officials have found live Mexican wild parrots hidden inside hollow watermelons and one rare bird taped to a woman's thigh. In Elaine, Wash., U.S. officers arrested two travelers who had crossed the Canadian border with four gyrfalcons concealed in the wheel well of their car trunk. To make matters even more complex, drug smugglers have entered the wildlife export game. Officials are investigating one report that a cargo of 80 parrots sent from Bolivia to The Netherlands included up to two dozen dead birds that were stuffed...