Then they approach her, unceremoniously command her to keep still, and begin to bind her tightly, pinioning her arms to her sides and trussing her legs together at midthigh.

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Mothers and fathers should start early, or at least earlier, to give kids a crash course in the DIY drudgery -- from tax prep to turkey trussing -- that doesn't make it onto school applications and resumes.

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Kei Kagami's shoes are odd contraptions of wood, leather and prostheticlike metal trussing one senses a broken culture rebuilding from scratch while Masaya Kushino's "Wind Horse" and "Storm Horse" hoof-shoes, complete with flowing tails at the heels, suggest centaur-princesses, thundering dynasties on vast Asian plains.

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