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Tourist destinations in China - and Guilin's towering limestone karsts are one of the country's vacation icons - don't tend to hide their battery of lights under a bushel. Rather, their attractions are numbered and eulogized and add exponentially to their own mythology. Geology in this part of Guangxi province provided the raw material, and it was simply left to the city fathers to bathe the more obvious attractions in neon by night, to sculpt Elephant Hill slightly so it really does look like a pachyderm dipping its trunk in the river, and to add a pagoda...
...festival and activities are free although there is a $14 fee for the ferry ride. Tougas Family Farm The farm is open every day from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. for apple picking, pumpkin picking and caramel apples. Wagon rides are provided on weekends and half a bushel of apples costs $25. The farm is 40 minutes from Boston, and if the drive is just too much, pre-picked fruit is available with no stigma attached. Fall FunFest at Faneuil Hall Marketplace Open Saturday through Sunday October 18 and 19, nearby Faneuil Hall will be hosting a capella groups...
...calloused from hard labor, yet surprisingly sensitive. A cut pomegranate balanced heavily upon his long tapered fingers. Each seed gleamed redly from within the open wound of the fruit. It was the hand of The Stable Boy.A leopard lay at the Stable Boy’s feet in a bushel of spilt chestnuts. A collar, studded with amethysts and other gems of some mysterious allegorical import, encircled the creature’s neck; it read, “Tatiana.” One paw lay upon an elaborately bound volume: Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics...
...French Riviera, sitting on your 100-foot yacht, and planning a cocktail party for 60 of your closest movie-star friends. Now let's say you decide that your party absolutely, positively requires a bushel of Patagonian blueberries, a case of 1990 Dom Perignon, some bongo drums, and a pair of llamas. Who do you call...
It’s a good time to be a farmer. Buoyed by rising demand for biofuels and the growth of the middle class in developing nations like China and India, corn prices have risen to $5.53 per bushel, an increase of more than 100 percent over 2006 levels. These gains, along with similar surges in the prices of wheat and rice, are poised to spur American agriculture to a record $92.3 billion in revenue this year. To top it all off, American farmers are still receiving $13 billion every year in subsidies from the federal government.If that seems strange...