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Your editors enhanced the nation's misery index in smashing style with the overwhelming number of pictures that were a stark visualization of ugliness, suffering and pain. Didn't any of your photographers catch a pear tree blossoming? A wren scolding? A schoolboy playing? JOHN F. WALDRON Virginia Beach...
...heard of the South Beach diet. Now get ready for the latest pound-shedding plans from Sonoma County and Park Avenue. Based on each locale's particular tastes, these new regimens aim to make dieting more palatable by mixing snob appeal with an occasional glass of Pinot. Here's a look at the "destination diets" and a few other weight-loss books worth sampling...
...example? What if you cut back to basic cable or a bare-bones cell-phone plan, or (if you can't do that) got rid of your landline entirely? Perhaps this summer you could vacation at home instead of spending $2,000 for a week at the beach, or trade two weeks for a seven-day getaway...
...Puustinen: While most entries called for monumental structures, this Finnish architect proposes something more interactive. A meandering walkway would crisscross a stream and lead down to the beach; visitors would make boats by folding banana leaves, and would then set them afloat on the sea as ritual offerings. "People participate by making a personal act," she explains, "and together they create the memorial...
...Richard Weller/Gary Marinko: Simplicity and elegance mark the memorial suggested by these Australian partners, landscape architect Weller and architect Marinko. It would consist of a 200-m-wide field of floating lights in the ocean, to be viewed from the headland or the beach. "Lighting up the ocean plays on something basic," says Weller. "I suppose it's an optimistic sign...