Word: avon
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...waste, which is important in a mountain climate in which food scraps can take as long as two years to decompose. "Our guests are interested in being green as long as they are comfortable," says Bob Trotter, general manager of the Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa, which will open in Avon, Colo., this spring. "And it's possible to do both. Our riverfront park is a beautiful amenity, but it's also designed to preserve the natural wetlands habitat. Good design benefits us all." In modest ways, skiing green can benefit the planet too. An Eco-Friendly Course Barriers and Solutions...
...Advocates of British penal reform say that as Asbos are granted in a civil court, in which the burden of proof is lower, police often secure senseless orders. In a much-cited example, a depressed woman who tried to drown herself in the River Avon was given an Asbo in 2005 forbidding her from jumping into rivers. Others question the efficacy of the some 4000 Asbos granted each year; a 2006 poll by MTV Europe found that a third of young people see Asbos as a badge of honor...
...Robert Harvard ventured out of bustling London to find a wife in the sleepy market town of Stratford-upon-Avon. In a house a short stroll from the home of William Shakespeare’s family, Harvard successfully courted Katherine Rodgers. The couple went on to sire our university’s namesake—John Harvard. And while the university was founded by a man whose parents very possibly knew Shakespeare personally, this fact did not foreshadow a corresponding care for drama in the new Cambridge. Puritanical conservatism, academic mores, and general structural lapses have hampered dramatic life...
...quite at the point of injecting ourselves with Botox. But we're definitely on the cusp of a new era of do-it-yourself dermatology. While cosmetics companies such as L'Oréal and Avon have for several years been selling souped-up scrubs and exfoliators billed as microdermabrasion kits, and antiwrinkle creams that mimic the effects of dermatologist-delivered aesthetic fillers, this is different. These new treatments are scaled-down versions of the light-based devices used by dermatologists to treat skin ailments, all designed so that a consumer can use them. Even hair removal via an at-home...
...rally her troops, drawn up on the shore, impotently waiting for the naval engagement to begin. She is given a noble rallying speech to sing out - her St. Crispin's Day moment - but, putting this as gently as possible, Nicholson and Hirst are not exactly the Bard of Avon, and Kapur is not exactly Laurence Olivier when it comes to staging this emptily rhetorical, entirely fictional moment. The director not much better with the ensuing naval battle, which is more symbolically than realistically staged...