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...wonder For the fitness-minded resident or traveler, Berlin's Tiergarten park offers one of the great runs in Europe. The park - 3 km long from the Brandenburg Gate to the Charlottenburg Gate and 1 km wide - was opened to the public by Frederick the Great in the 18th century. A leafy refuge, it's hard to imagine that by the winter of 1945, Allied bombing and Berliners foraging for firewood had thinned out the park's 200,000 trees to 700. A group of running enthusiasts known as the RBB Laufbewegung (www.rbb-laufbewegung.de.) sponsors a 5-km run Saturdays beginning...
...RIGHT THIS MINUTE Rococo Revival: 18th century opulence takes hold of the design world...
Leave it to Sofia Coppola and Madonna to bring the powdered wigs and the sumptuous decorative glory of the 18th century back into fashion. Coppola plans to make a movie out of Antonia Fraser's Marie Antoinette: The Journey. And Madonna is unearthing the corset again for her upcoming tour. On the decorative front, Ralph Lauren has created gold-plated flatware for his home collection, and Philippe Starck was inspired by Louis XV in his work for Baccarat and Kartell. Au revoir, finally, to minimalism. --By Amanda Greene
...bottom of the 12th, Ortiz stepped to the plate and crushed one over the Wall in left field and into the new Green Monster seats. Just a few minutes later, I flipped back to CBS to see Mickelson follow suit by making an improbable birdie putt on the 18th green to claim that elusive Green Jacket...
...anything of a Cross there. You go straight from Palm Sunday to Easter without passing Go." The omission extends far beyond the historical Protestant aversion to crucifixes featuring Jesus' body. Rather, says Jack Miles, author of Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God, it dates back to the 18th century, when "Americans tended not to linger on the agony of Jesus. It was more 'friend of my soul, he walks with me and talks with me.'" That phenomenon, which has only accelerated, afflicts conservative Christianity as much as those in mainline churches, says American Jesus author Prothero...