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Lauding peace efforts in the Middle East and the former Yugoslavia, Karamanlis said, "Nobody who shares Western values can support extremism...
Children who have read Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family will find it easy to picture immigrant life by imagining Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie calling on friends in what is now the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, a restored tenement building on Orchard Street...
Raised on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Lonstein began designing clothes out of necessity: she made her own bras and bathing suits when she had trouble finding any to fit her ample breasts and pencil-thin lower body. "I love clothing more than anything else," she confided over hot cider at a neighborhood lounge. "I almost walk through stores like one would walk through museums." After graduating from U.C.L.A. in 1997 with a dual degree in history and art history, she apprenticed at a lingerie company, where she learned that "it takes 38 pieces to construct a bra." Then...
Muir was a serious student of natural science, but his contemporary Mark Twain was a class comedian whose best subject was human nature. Twain tried his luck at mining in the little gold town of Angels Camp, a 2 1/2-hour drive east of Martinez; a replica of his one-room shack sits on top of Jackass Hill. His comical tale of a compulsive bettor, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, made Twain a household name and inspired an annual Jumping Frog Jubilee, held the third weekend in May in Angels Camp. Current world record...
...hours east of Angels Camp is Yosemite, beloved by Muir and, judging from the crowds, by the rest of the world as well. Make reservations for stays of overnight or longer and arrive early in the day. The best way to escape the hordes is to borrow a page from Muir and take a hike. There are a multitude of trails to choose from, but Yosemite Falls, one of Muir's favorite features, is a good destination. "When the afternoon sunshine is streaming through the throng of comets, ever wasting, ever renewed," Muir wrote of the falls, "the marvelous fineness...