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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This October, FPL Energy will inaugurate the world's largest wind farm, Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center in Abilene, Tex.

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Though the coach has an enclosed interior, passengers usually sit topside on benches, the better to take in the passing show: the wind and sun, fresh air, wildflowers, townspeople waving and, of course, the occasional whiff of horse emissions.

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