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When 2004 Nieman fellow Susan Orlean began researching the arcane world of rare-flower piracy in the mid-1990s, she was less than immediately successful, as she explained to a capacity audience of Summer School students in Boylston Hall’s Fong Auditorium on Monday...
...sensitive to his growing celebrity and the jealousies that can flower in his classmates and is vigilant almost to a fault. "When he went to a dance in high school, for example, I would tell him, 'Michael, please be careful. If you put your glass down, don't pick it back up'--things like that," she says, fearing everything from recreational drugs to banned substances. "It makes me sound like a nagging mother, but I always try to keep 10 steps ahead of him." Says Phelps: "We've gotten so much closer over the past few years because...
HEINZ KERRY: For instance, one day a week I would not eat protein because I needed to buy a flower in the middle of winter. I would have to buy a rose or something that would take me to the outdoors. I ate simply. I lived the life of a student for 3 1/2 years. And I was happy. So I've been used to living within my budget and not to feel deprived because of it. And the other thing that I know, which is a great comfort to me, is how happy I can be, for instance...
...Oxford's Christ Church Meadows. In the fall, a permit for the Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto is the best way to see Japan's fiery autumnal foliage. And when all is dreary in the north, there's always Cape Town's Kirstenbosch Gardens, or New Zealand's Ellerslie Flower Show in November-the largest of its kind in the southern hemisphere. Check out these websites, too, for holidays with a green-fingered focus...
...www.shenzhengarden.com Starting Sept. 16, the Chinese city of Shenzhen hosts its fifth garden and flower expo, featuring 120 gardens...