function changeChick(chickNumber) {

  var chickCopy = "";
  
  switch (chickNumber) {
  
 	case "1":
   	document.chickImage.src = "http://a1432.g.akamai.net/7/1432/1365/20091124/away.com/images/outside/oceanic-endeavors/gallery01.jpg";
	document.chickImage.alt = "All Legs On Deck!";
  	chickCopy = '<a href="/outside/news/200304/200304_disp_legs.html" class="wis"><strong>All Legs On Deck!</strong></a><br /><br class="small" />Did a crew of French sailors bump heads with a deep-sea legend?<br /><br class="small" /><a href="/outside/news/200304/200304_disp_legs.html">Click here to read the article</a>'
    break;
  	case "2":
  	document.chickImage.src = "http://a1432.g.akamai.net/7/1432/1365/20091124/away.com/images/outside/oceanic-endeavors/gallery04.jpg";
	document.chickImage.alt = "Into the Screaming 50s";
  	chickCopy = '<a href="/outside/news/200208/200208_screaming_50s_1.html" class="wis"><strong>Into the Screaming 50s</strong></a><br /><br class="small" />Around Cape Horn eighty-knot williwaws blast down from the surrounding peaks, thirty-foot waves rear up and ships are tossed around like ice cubes in a blender. For one sailor, it\'s a pilgrimage to the place where his great-grandfather came to grief in 1875-and a chance to confront the raw power of the sea.<br /><br class="small" /><a href="/outside/news/200208/200208_screaming_50s_1.html">Click here to read the article</a>'
	break;
	case "3":
   	document.chickImage.src = "http://a1432.g.akamai.net/7/1432/1365/20091124/away.com/images/outside/oceanic-endeavors/gallery03.jpg";
	document.chickImage.alt = "Captain Retro";
  	chickCopy = '<a href="/outside/features/200406/tim_severin_1.html" class="wis"><strong>Captain Retro</strong></a><br /><br class="small" />Is time traveler Tim Severin the greatest living explorer? Probably-but you\'ll never get him to admit it.<br /><br class="small" /><a href="/outside/features/200406/tim_severin_1.html">Click here to read the article</a>'
	break;
	case "4":
  	document.chickImage.src = "http://a1432.g.akamai.net/7/1432/1365/20091124/away.com/images/outside/oceanic-endeavors/gallery08.jpg";
	document.chickImage.alt = "Surf and Destroy";
  	chickCopy = '<a href="http://outside.away.com/magazine/1095/10f_whal.html" class="wis"><strong>Surf and Destroy</strong></a><br /><br class="small" />Can a monster swell be tracked down and hunted like some great beast? That\'s the mad mission of the $3 million Billabong Odyssey, surfing\'s rapid-response quest to find and ride the biggest wave in history?<br /><br class="small" /><a href="http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200404/surfing_billabong_odyssey_1.html">Click here to read the article</a>'
	break;
	case "5":
  	document.chickImage.src = "http://a1432.g.akamai.net/7/1432/1365/20091124/away.com/images/outside/oceanic-endeavors/gallery05.jpg";
	document.chickImage.alt = "Terminal Ice";
  	chickCopy = '<a href="/outside/news/200210/200210_terminal_ice_1.html" class="wis"><strong>Terminal Ice</strong></a><br /><br class="small" />Go to the bottom of the planet-or the top-and you can\'t miss the warning signs of a warm apocalypse. And at the heart of the mystery, like broken shards of a colder climate, float the icebergs, ghost-white messengers trying to tell us something we can\'t quite fathom.<br /><br class="small" /><a href="/outside/news/200210/200210_terminal_ice_1.html">Click here to read the article</a>'
	break;  
  default: 	//probably want to make this default to the first image/copy
  	document.chickImage.src = "http://a1432.g.akamai.net/7/1432/1365/20091124/away.com/images/outside/oceanic-endeavors/gallery01.jpg";
	document.chickImage.alt = "All Legs On Deck!";
  	chickCopy = '<a href="/outside/news/200304/200304_disp_legs.html" class="wis"><strong>All Legs On Deck!</strong></a><br /><br class="small" />Did a crew of French sailors bump heads with a deep-sea legend?<br /><br class="small" /><a href="/outside/news/200304/200304_disp_legs.html">Click here to read the article</a>'
  	break;
  
  }
  
  document.getElementById("risingStars").innerHTML = chickCopy;

}//end changeChick function