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...index finger well enough to write his signature for the first time since a bicycle accident two years ago; Jake Giambrone of Alabama can move his right wrist for the first time since a wrestling injury four years ago; and Cade Richardson of Washington State can feel his rag-wool socks for the first time since his paraglider accident in 2001?"my feet itch," he says, "and it feels great...
...until the sculptures came, the biggest thing on the horizon in the past hundred years was Cyclone Bobby, in 1995. The deluge it brought transformed Lake Ballard into a magical breeding ground for 10,000 banded stilts. "It was like a thousand cotton-wool balls out there," Finlayson recalls. Then the birds left...
Every summer, style setters from Malibu to Montauk tend to obsess over a singular fashion item. This season the must-have look is the poncho--preferably in a loose wool knit with funky fringe (never mind that it's 90 outside). Designers like Michael Kors featured them for fall, left, and celebs like Keira Knightley have already been spotted sporting the '70s style. All that's missing are the moccasins. --By Kate Betts
...sample for yourself, make the four-hour drive from Seattle to Walla Walla. The road laces through the spectacular Cascades, past cloud-ensconced Mount Rainier, and then the land rounds out into desert-like hills that look as if they were covered by fuzzy wool. About 210 miles from Seattle is the Red Mountain area and the impressive Hedges Cellars winery. Don't leave the region without sipping the hard-to-find wines of Hightower Cellars, just down the road from Hedges...
...with the technique. The Silbo employs ch, y, g and k sounds, plus the vowels a and i. "The sounds are approximate to spoken Spanish," says Darias. "Some words, such as catarro [a cold] and cacharro [a cooking utensil], sound much the same, as do nada [nothing] and lana [wool]. Context tells you which." To test whether this is all lana over the visitor's eyes, Darias is asked to bring in some of his students. Antonio Ramos, Ivan Conrado, twins Paula and Mirta Rodriguez, Maria Garcia and Raico Sanchez do him proud. Maria whistles Antonio's name. He makes...