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...time high school rolls around, student groups have realized that they can cash in on Valentine’s Day and make some dough off of unexpressed high school angst. The frenzied flower-selling activity in the hallways—“Buy a Rose for Community Service!”—spurs frantic discussion among the cliques. Should you send one to your secret crush with a cryptic message? A real message? Should it arrive during math or English? Do you think you even have a chance? Thus student groups increase their budgets?...
...Adler and David Stark, who run the Avi Adler studio in Brooklyn, N.Y., use a whimsical theatricality for large-scale events. Hardware such as metal Christmas balls and other objects found around the home or garage often appear in their designs. The two also like to bunch similar flowers tightly together and craft them into geometric shapes. Their graphic color-blocked creations almost managed to turn the carnation into a glamorous flower again. "If you're creating flowers for a modern space, the purely romantic won't make a dent," says Stark. Instead these flowers insist on making an impression...
...undermine the domestic standing of America's Arab allies, including Saudi Arabia. "My god, the idea of an occupation of Baghdad by the armed forces of the United States is unimaginable," said Saud. "This is the capital of Harun al Rashid, who was negotiating with Charlemagne. This was the flower of Arab civilization. Who is the general who will occupy Baghdad? How would he ever be considered a friend of the Arab world? But the U.S. is not an imperialist power and its record proves that...
...9/11 to the persistent disappointment of a 2002 spent waiting for a recovery that still hasn?t come. In that context, a broad, job-ful recovery by year?s end would be rather impressive, considering the last, jobless one (which surrounded the last Gulf War) took four years to flower. But it still pays to remember that even if the end of the war is the beginning of the recovery, this economy will still have a long...
...Searching for his wife, the fisherman finds her captured by a demon warrior and must rescue her with the aid of a cowardly elephant and a lame ox. Full of adventure, romance and magic, "The Yellow Jar" and its companion story, "Two Chrysanthemum Maidens," about of a pair of flower sisters who take up residence in a monk's prized garden, couldn't be more delightful...