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Emilee Rivers and Brandi Wheeler, both 16, and Ms. Shanks, 23, pick out feather extensions for their hair at the Boise, Idaho, salon. “I've wanted to get them for quite a while,” Emilee said.
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Associated Press photographs Kim Shanks gets feather extensions clipped into her hair at MiraBella Salon and Spa in Boise, Idaho, recently. From the coast of Maine to landlocked Idaho, fly-fishing shops are at the center of the latest hair trend, feather extensions, which have driven up the price of the feathers. The feathers are from roosters genetically bred and raised for their plumage.
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** FILE ** This Nov. 27, 2006, file photo shows former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger outside the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. Friends and former colleagues say Eagleburger, the only career foreign service officer to rise to the position of secretary of state, has died. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)
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President Obama acknowledges reporters on June 3, 2011, before greeting workers during a shift change at Chrysler Group's Toledo Supplier Park in Toledo, Ohio. (Associated Press)
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This photo provided by the Virginia State Police shows Kin Yiu Cheung, 37, of Flushing, N.Y. , the driver of a bus that crashed May 31, 2011, on Interstate 95 in Caroline County, Va. (Associated Press/Virginia State Police)
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Charlene Meacham tosses a piece of wood at her sister-in-law's leveled home as she helps them salvage belongings in Monson, Mass., on Thursday, one day after the house was destroyed by a tornado. (Associated Press)
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Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times Surjo Bandyopadhyay, 14, of Lusby, Md., grimaces when given the word "nachschlag" to spell in the semifinals of the 2011 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday. He misspelled what he jokingly called a "strange word."
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Tony Incorvati, 13, of Uniontown, Ohio, suffers the agony of defeat after misspelling the word "syringadenous" during the annual bee's semifinals on Thursday.
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie answers a question Thursday in Denville, N.J., as he defends using a state police helicopter for two personal trips, to fly to his son's baseball games and a political event. He said he and the state GOP committee will reimburse the state, a day after a spokesman said he would not make the reimbursement. (Associated Press)
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Speller Lucas Urbanski, 11, of Crystal Lake, Illinois, hangs out with his dad Michael in the lobby outside the Maryland Ballroom at the Gaylord National in Oxon Hill, Md., following Round Three of the 2011 Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee on Wednesday, June 1, 2011. Lucas says he got four wrong on the written test but didn't miss any words in the oral competition, so now he must wait and see if he is one of the 50 spellers who will move on to Thursday's semifinals. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Savannah Aldridge, 13, of Clarksburg, W.Va., asks for the origin of her word, "soliloquy", during Round Two of the 2011 Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee on Wednesday, June 1, 2011. Two hundred and seventy-five spellers from around the country competed in rounds two and three of the bee Wednesday at the Gaylord National in Oxon Hill, Md. Spellers were not eliminated during Wednesday's rounds, but rather earned points towards competing in the semifinals, which will be held Thursday. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Hanif Brown Jr., 13, of Kingston, Jamaica, hangs his head as he sits in the lounge area just offstage after timing out on his word, "nataka," during the semifinals round of the 2011 National Spelling Bee on Thursday, June 2, 2011, held at the Gaylord National in Oxon Hill, Md. He actually spelled the word correctly, but it was after the buzzer went off. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Protesting farmers dump about 300 kilos (700 pounds) of fruit and vegetables, cabbage, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and other produce outside the German consulate in Valencia, Spain, on June 2, 2011. Spain says it is not ruling out taking legal action against German authorities for blaming Spanish vegetables for the E.coli outbreak that has killed 16 people. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this March 1, 2011, photo, a Thai man has tattoos inked into his back at Wat Bang Pra in Nakhon Chaisi, Thailand. Thailand's Culture Minister Niphit Intharasombat has announced that foreign tourist should be banned from getting religious tattoos while visiting Thailand, saying the practice is culturally insensitive. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
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A farm worker holds cucumbers in a greenhouse in Algarrobo, near Malaga, southern Spain, on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Angry Spanish farmers whose produce has been cited as a possible source of the deadly bacterial infection in Europe are watching in despair as machines grind their suddenly unwanted fruit and vegetables into compost and are particularly livid with Germany. (AP Photo/Sergio Torres)
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The Stratton model at Victory Promenade has an open living and dining room on the main level. It is priced from $271,990 and has 1,913 square feet.
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"I left the country and decided also to leave my job and to join the choice of Libyan youth to create a modern constitutional state respecting human rights and building a better future for all Libyans," said Shokri Ghanem, formerly Libya's top oil official, who defected to Rome on Wednesday. (AP Photo)
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"I left the country and decided also to leave my job and to join the choice of Libyan youth to create a modern constitutional state respecting human rights and building a better future for all Libyans." said Libya's former top oil official, Shokri Ghanem, who defected to Rome on Wednesday
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Speller Lucas Urbanski, 11, of Crystal Lake, Illinois, hangs out with his dad Michael in the lobby outside the Maryland Ballroom at the Gaylord National in Oxon Hill, Md., following Round Three of the 2011 Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee on Wednesday, June 1, 2011. Lucas says he got four wrong on the written test but didn't miss any words in the oral competition, so now he must wait and see if he is one of the 50 spellers who will move on to Thursday's semifinals. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Savannah Aldridge, 13, of Clarksburg, W.Va., asks for the origin of her word, "soliloquy", during Round Two of the 2011 Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee on Wednesday, June 1, 2011. Two hundred and seventy-five spellers from around the country competed in rounds two and three of the bee Wednesday at the Gaylord National in Oxon Hill, Md. Spellers were not eliminated during Wednesday's rounds, but rather earned points towards competing in the semifinals, which will be held Thursday. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
