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After the bustle of the theme parks, take a person you'd like to kiss to Leu Gardens ($7), a 50-acre (20 hectare) botanical garden in downtown Orlando. Make your way back to the Reba Tennessee Varnes bench and sit under the Spanish moss that hangs from a weeping Chinese elm. This must be the most romantic spot in Florida. Not far away is the Orlando Museum of Art ($8), which focuses on works by Americans. Don't miss Dennis Oppenheim's majestically disturbing 1996 installation Products from the Snowman Factory, a collection of faceless fiberglass snowmen leaning...
Steve Roush, chief of sport performance for the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC), admits there's no real excuse for the America's dismal Olympic handball record, which is 4 wins, 26 losses, 1 tie and yet another seat on the bench in '08. "I'm absolutely on the same wavelength," says Roush. "There's an athlete pool out there we can tap into to be successful. We have struggled for decades to figure out a formula...
Across the road from the burning farmer's field, three Georgian brothers in their 80s sit on a bench, resting their feet. They have walked 60 km (37 miles) since early Monday and do not know where to go. They are from a small, ethnically mixed village in the Liakhvi gorge in South Ossetia. Their families left their homes earlier but the men stayed behind, thinking that at their age they would not be bothered. But on Monday morning, Levan Khaduri, 84, a tiny gray-haired man with a deep tan, was putting up a new fence around the home...
...older men in the group of would-be recruits sit in a row on a bench smoking cigarettes. Some carry plastic red-white-and-blue-striped rice bags. The few recruiters who agree to be interviewed tell similar stories. They accuse the American and Western press of lying about the events in Georgia. No one believes that the Russians have invaded Georgia and that Tbilisi and other cities have been bombed. Because the Russian press has not reported it, they say, it cannot be true. A rumor widely circulated is that black soldiers have been spotted fighting on the Georgian...
...Madrid, a man with whom I shared a park bench was surprised when I told him I was from the United States, and he told me that my Spanish was “bastante bien”—good enough. If my Spanish has really improved during my short time here, then that’s bastante bien for me. —Victoria B. Kabak '09, a Crimson news executive, is a social studies concentrator in Kirkland House...