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...earn extra money. The locomotive was last used in its original capacity 25 years ago, carrying Tito's remains cross-country during his funeral parade, and has been kept in a Belgrade engine hangar ever since. The Blue Train reflects Tito's hedonistic lifestyle: it features the finest woolen carpets and car walls lined with mahogany carvings, and compartments furnished with silk drapes and burgundy leather armchairs. It's a true hotel on rails, including a dining car, cinema and three elaborately designed saloon cars, one of which was made especially for Charles de Gaulle in the late...
...winter and cool in summer. But first and foremost, he wants to spread the word that wool isn't scratchy. "That's the presumption we've got to change," he says with a grin. Today's wool, like the kind being produced by his family's business, Pendleton Woolen Mills in Portland, Ore., is soft, supple, lightweight and not at all irritating...
...that isn't likely to change, despite stiff competition from China, where textile quotas are about to be lifted. Although Levi's 501s, Fruit of the Loom briefs and Pillowtex pillows are no longer "Made in America," this Pacific Northwest apparel maker has found a way to continue weaving woolens here at home. Knowing it can't compete against overseas firms on low cost or mass scale, the private company has kept a foothold in the U.S. by producing limited runs of high-end, upscale fabrics for niche markets. "The work we're doing now is much more specialized," Bishop...
...Ronni Blumenthal, the moment of family bliss came in Guatemala City as her mother Barbara wrapped 23-month-old Dov in a worn red woolen blanket that Ronni's great-grandmother had made. "My grandmother used to tell me," says Barbara, "'Go get the red blanket, and we'll cuddle.' So this blanket--and tradition--has been passed from generation to generation, and has special meaning...
Checking his watch, Abu Ali abruptly rises from a sofa, throws on a woolen overcoat and orders everyone, including the reporter, to move out. The men pile into three cars and tear off in different directions. For more than an hour, they cruise near the launch site until all looks clear. Then a small team walks into a flat field to aim a rack of homemade launching tubes toward the lights of the Baghdad airport, home to U.S. chopper squadrons, supply units and the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group, less than two miles away. The insurgents load three...