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...meets landscape gardening and highlights the work of 50 designers who, for the past decade or so, have reacted to the glassy, razor-edge precision of modernist architecture with creations that go way beyond raised flower beds and mounds of perfect lawn. "These gardens are about ideas first and foremost," says author Tim Richardson. "They're not mainly about plants and they're not really about function." Instead, they use surreal scaling, vivid colors and otherworldly shapes "to disrupt the modernist feel of rational, calm, ordered spaces - it sometimes looks as if some sort of earthquake has occurred...
...With the opposition apparently powerless to enforce the democratic victory it claims to have won at the polls, much attention has shifted to Zimbabwe's neighbors, foremost among them South Africa, on which the country remains economically dependent. But the South African leadership is internally divided since the ruling African National Congress mutinied against President Thabo Mbeki last December, and chose his arch rival, Jacob Zuma, as party president. And that split may be playing out in South Africa's response to events in Zimbabwe. On Saturday, Mbeki visited Mugabe in Harare and declared that there was no crisis...
...group, called Benedict "one of the keenest observers of modern religious life," whose expertise extends beyond his own Church. "John Paul had a specific geopolitical design from the start of his papacy: the fall of communism. Benedict has more of a 'geo-cultural' design, wanting to challenge contemporary society. Foremost, he wants to provoke a crisis of conscience in a West that has grown closed to faith...
...major cause of current high oil prices, of course, is record demand, fueled first and foremost by China's booming economy. "China is the major factor in demand," says OPEC research director Hasan Qabazard. He predicts that world oil demand will increase about 30% to 118 million barrels...
...Irwin Redlener is one of the foremost advocates for children's health in the U.S. and an authority on preparedness for disasters. He co-founded the Children's Health Fund, which runs the Gulf's largest and longest-operating post-Katrina pediatric program...