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...through mergers. In some cases, the newly merged councils have more facilities than they need. For example, when Camp Daisy moved under the umbrella of the Kansas City, Mo., council, officers took a cold look at the rustic horse barn. The council already has a state-of-the-art Scout Equestrian center two hours away, which made Daisy's horse program an easy target. (The Scouts are still trying to figure out just what to do with Daisy's 23 horses...
...Conspicuous Consumption Is Safe. It used to be hard to tell rich from poor in Baghdad, especially outside the Green Zone. Fear of being kidnapped for ransom prompted many wealthy Iraqis to feign poverty. Living below one's means became an art form: decrepit cars, cheap cell phones, minimalist jewelry...
Aesthetic Extravaganza. For a few days in early December, Miami will become the center of the art and design world: During Art Basel Miami (Dec. 4-7), 250 galleries will exhibit 20th- and 21st-century painting, sculpture and anything else that can be defined as art. At the concurrent Design Miami (Dec. 3-6), you can take a gander at furniture, lighting and everything else design-related exhibited in flashy spaces. Even if you have no money to spend, the art, objects and people make an interesting spectacle...
...museum has opened a 25,000-sq.-ft. branch in downtown New York, focusing on that city's contribution to the music world. Admission is a steep $22, but the money buys you a look at David Byrne's Stop Making Sense suit, letters between Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel when they were teenagers, and a urinal from CBGBs, the legendary Lower East Side punk-rock club, which closed in 2006. 76 Mercer Street, New York City...
...spawning season in search of shoals that have escaped the trappers. The industry's major players are massive multinational corporations like Mitsubishi, the world's biggest tuna trader - Japan imports the bulk of bluefin tuna caught in the Med. Some of the larger companies have created state-of-the-art tuna ranches in the Med's deep waters, where bluefin tuna swim into giant nets and are fattened over a period of months before being hauled out, processed in floating factories and then exported...