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...even reasonable regulations itch like wool long johns. Take the predicament of 122,000 year-round residents of New York State's 6 million-acre Adirondack Park. The park was to be "forever wild," and the state's 22-year-old Adirondack Park Agency regulates growth. But it also generates fury--expressed by barn burning, tire slashing and vehicle shooting, in addition to much heated talk. One of the angriest is Richard Schoenstadt, 44, a surveyor's assistant who bought 54 riverfront acres, intending to subdivide. The apa insisted on an exhaustive biological inventory. Then, says Schoenstadt, who between fighting...
...Wool socks...
...from the occupying forces. In San Andres Larrainzar, one of the rebel- infiltrated towns where the army withdrew its troops last week, residents consider both sides equally repressive. ``We just want to live in peace,'' says Miguel Lopez Gomez, an elder in the local church who wears the traditional wool tunic of the Tzotzil Indians. ``We want to work, pray, feed our families. We don't want any confrontations here...
...Marge Shaller said. A grand jury indicted Leary on several counts including attempted murder and assault. Leary faces a total of 45 counts of attempted murder and remains in critical but stable condition with severe burns covering half his body. Today his wife, who wore a wig and a wool hat as part of a disguise during the press conference, said: "No, I don't think he did it . . . I think he's a victim." Police say that Leary was holding a mayonnaise jar filled with a flammable liquid rigged with a timer when it went...
Sander is not one of those designers whose participation in the process of making clothes ends when they have made a sketch. A former student of textile engineering, she insists on controlling all the details of manufacturing, and has invented fabrics like wool velvet and wool linen. She tries on every item in her collection before it is sent to stores and has been known to delay or refuse shipments of pieces that are not perfectly executed to her specifications. To keep her production schedules on target and to make sure - there isn't anything lacking in her line, Sander...