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...voices calmly instruct the nation on how to protect their homes against the big one. Sandbags, they proffer, would do nicely. Depressing? Not everyone thinks so. For $1,445 you can hire the licensed wedding venue to get hitched, but be warned: there could be fallout. Open seasonally, from Easter weekend to Oct. 31. tel: (44-1333) 310301; www.secretbunker.co.uk
President Raul Alfonsin had already settled in for a long, lazy Easter weekend when the news reached him in his provincial hometown of Chascomas. About 130 officers and soldiers, led by Army Major Ernesto Barreiro, were holed up in an army barracks near the city of Cordoba, some 400 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. Barreiro had just been cashiered for refusing to obey a civilian court subpoena to answer charges of human-rights atrocities committed in the 1970s during the army's war against alleged leftist subversives. Now, angered by the ongoing human-rights prosecutions, he and his fellow rebels...
Resorts and cruise lines have risen to meet the new demand. The Broadmoor, a venerable hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo., has seen a 3% increase each year in the number of multigenerational families who celebrate holidays there. Canyon Ranch, which has enjoyed a steady Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter business, added Passover seders seven or eight years ago. They are populated mostly by couples, like the Friends, who leave the family behind to get a new type of R. and R.: religion and relaxation...
...from finger painting to exhibit-related games. Messages written by children in 1978 are contained in the Puffin Time Capsule, which has been buried in the hallway; the letters will be opened by children in 2078. The center contains two floors of exhibition space: "Incredible Journeys," which runs until Easter next year, will explore the reading experience with seven rooms of styles and genres, such as topsy-turvy world, wilderness world and a world of quests and challenges. There's also a story lab, in which the public can access digitized collection material, a sunny reading nook...
...center contains two floors of exhibition space: "Incredible Journeys," which runs until Easter next year, will explore the reading experience with seven rooms of styles and genres, such as topsy-turvy world, wilderness world and a world of quests and challenges. There's also a story lab, in which the public can access digitized collection material, a sunny reading nook, a caf? and a bookstore. Flossie Hunt, 11, of Rothbury, Northumberland, predicts that "people will want to spend the whole day here." Memo to Hogwarts admin: get those school trips organized pronto...