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Star chef José Andrés and Embutidos Fermin celebrated the arrival of prized jamón ibérico products to the U.S. for the first time. The plum-colored ham, considered by some to be the finest in the world, wasn't the only cured meat taking center stage at the show, though. La Quercia Rossa Heirloom Breed Culaccia dry-cured ham was both salty and sweet, Principe's truffled ham was luxurious, and S. Wallace Edwards offered American- style serrano with paper-thin slices of its WigWam...
PAMPLONA, Spain: Hemingway's favorite festival, the weeklong drinking-and-bullfighting binge known as San Fermin, has claimed yet more victims. One man died Thursday when he plunged off a wall; another is in serious condition after a bull trampled on his head; a third was gored in the leg by a bull that had rid himself of his rubber horn protectors. Add to that the casualty list of head and jaw injuries earlier in the week, and you have one of the bloodiest San Fermins since -- well, since the last life was claimed...
...were to do the senseless thing--to take the path of least resistance, to give it all up for the void--it is easy to see why one might choose to go by leaping from the cliffs at Point Fermin. There is not much in the way of natural beauty in the port town of San Pedro, at the southern end of Los Angeles. Almost everywhere, the views of the Pacific are cluttered by the oil tankers, the container ships, the canneries and the flaming smokestacks that provide the jobs in this working-class town. But at Point Fermin there...
Just before graduating from ninth grade, Alicia Hayes, 15, and Amber Hernandez, 14, opted out of adolescence at this spot. On the night of Wednesday, May 22, Amber had a dispute with her parents and ran from the house. Sometime later, she and Alicia went to Point Fermin, climbed the fence and stood amid the wildflowers. They took their shoes off, tied their wrists together with twine and jumped. The next day a beachcomber found their broken bodies on the rocks at water's edge, some 150 ft. below. "Mom and Dad, I love you," read the note Amber left...
Realignment has pretty well ruined the rest of the divisional horseraces. it doesn't take a crystal ball to see that the AL West is Texas' to lose, against the Oakland A's, California Angles, and Seattle Mariners. (Memo to Mariners GM Woody Woodward: Vizquel for Felix Fermin? What were you thinking...