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DIED. ROSEMARY VEREY, 82, revered British garden designer and author, whose four-acre garden at Barnsley House in Gloucestershire draws 30,000 admirers yearly; in London. With her sophisticated sensibilities and keen eye for color, Verey was an inspiration to horticulturists the world over. She introduced to the U.S. such elements as the ornamental vegetable garden, and designed plantings for the likes of Prince Charles and Elton John...
...reconfigured and refurbished; restaurants, terraces and an oceanfront lawn have been added. Pending discussions with civic and environmental groups, the corporation hopes to build more guests rooms, a vast conference center and a spa-and-fitness facility; add more green space; place most parking underground; and restore a classic garden...
...roundabout recently, capturing him in a cycle of misdirection and frustration with each new turn. In advance of his first European trip, he tried one more time to get left on the issue by showing his administration's commitment to addressing the problem of global warming. In a Rose Garden ceremony Monday, the president acknowledged America's responsibility as a polluter and promised to study the issue and create incentives for new technologies to combat it. It was a game effort to remedy a blotchy image, but the question for the White House is whether the repair job will help...
...Like his visits to the Sequoia National Park and the Everglades over the last two weeks, the Rose Garden speech was more concerned with making Bush look environmentally conscious than it was in offering a brave new approach to the issue of global warming. The park visits were cooked up months ago to "to solve the arsenic problem," as one senior White House aide put it. The "arsenic problem," was the first blow to the administration's environmental image after the White House announced a review of last-minute Clinton-imposed regulations on the level of arsenic in the drinking...
Tourism offers a better life not just for those who make money from it but also for those who pay to enjoy it. A few steps from my friends' garden in Crete are cheap hotels that cater to Russians and eastern Europeans who, just the day before yesterday, could only dream of the Aegean sun. Rich Americans, too, have their lives enriched by travel--and not just while they are abroad. Tourism is like trade: it improves an economy's competitiveness. Trade does so because it stimulates local suppliers to match the quality and variety of imported goods. Tourism does...