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Forty years ago, when the city examined the possibility of building a public high school across from Forest Hills Station and adjacent to the Arboretum, it was Harvard that objected, saying that any such institutional development at its doorstep would encroach on open space at the Arboretum next door...
Would you be interested in an ecologically sound pastime that's mostly free of charge, adventurous and helps you lose kilos in the process? Then get your boots on. Hiking may smack of church camps or high school geography clubs, but vistas like that of Canada's Kootenay Lake Forest, pictured, can be just the thing for restoring the jaded traveler's sense of wonder. Here are four other sensational hiking destinations...
...SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA: The view of the Pacific Ocean from the 1,500-m Point Lookout platform is just one of the joys awaiting hikers in New England National Park (nationalparks.nsw.gov.au)?an ecological wonderland of soaring cliffs and World Heritage rain forest. If time is limited, the 2.5-km Eagle's Nest circuit, along the edge of a sheer drop, offers adrenaline in a jiffy...
Need a way to communicate your outrage over, say, the bulldozing of a forest? The President's policies? The car dealer down the block? Judging by the growing number of political, social and environmental activist groups started by moms and grandmas, you'd be wise this Mother's Day (May 14--don't forget!) to seek tips from your maternal elders. Here's a look at Ma Power, past and present...
...Hard Place and the French puppet show Les Guignols de l?Info, in which effigies of Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Berlusconi and other European leaders sing a mockery of "We Are the World" (in English): "We f--- the world, / We f--- the children, / We f--- the world, the forest and the sea / So let us do it." Maybe even the Comedy Central censors would shiver at that...