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...thing. During my first winter break back at my first home, in San Diego, I returned to find my former bedroom converted to a sterile guestroom. Stripped of my pictures, the walls begged for personality. My bed had new sheets, charcoal gray, and the bookshelves were empty. The tightly woven strands of high school memory, made of the stuff of Hanukkah candle-lightings, of late-night drinking and Pacific Coast sunrises, of first kisses and baseball championships, had already begun to unravel...
...stand it. I never have the steinhardt to express myself one way or another so I simmer and stew and, because of that industrial yet exciting environment, the feeling fades and I’m fine again, ready to be thrilled by a great breaking story or a tightly woven lede or a quote that speaks volumes beyond its few words...
Rutan personally designed their craft, SpaceShipOne, a vehicle as improbable as it is revolutionary. The size of a small biplane, SpaceShipOne is a shell of woven graphite glued onto a rocket motor that runs on laughing gas and rubber. The nose is punctuated by portholes, like an ocean liner. Inside, the critical instrument is a Ping-Pong ball decorated with a smiley face and attached to the cabin with a piece of string, which goes slack when the pilot reaches the zero-gravity of suborbital space...
Proceeds from sales of these silk scarves, hand woven in the Cambodian village of Robib, not only pay workers' wages, the profits also support local assistance programs. Go to villageleap.com...
After all, an Ethiopian-Eritrean meal at homey Asmara in the heart of Central Square is a feast in its own right. Hidden under a green-and-white striped awning on Mass Ave., the restaurant is warmly lit and cozy. Couples huddle close over low woven tables (called mosobs) while owner Lettensa Afeworki bustles about maternally, checking in eagerly to see if you’re making progress...