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...current obsession is the town of Batumi, which is developing at a speed that would make China blush. John Steinbeck called Batumi a "very pleasant little tropical city" after a 1948 visit there, but he would not recognize it now. There's a water park and countless neon-lit fountains that burble in sync with songs like "Pretty Woman" and "Somewhere over the Rainbow." The town centerpiece is a long promenade with 800 palm trees, sleek benches designed in Valencia, Spain, and an artificial river lit neon blue. Working through the night, workers built the place in three months. Construction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World According to Misha: Georgia's Saakashvili | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

From documentary fanatics (Ken Burns made an appearance) to adults who read kid lit (Chris Van Allsburg, author of "The Polar Express" was there, and so was Clifford the Big Red Dog) to spoken word poets, the inaugural BBF had something for everyone. Flyby is eager for the second edition...

Author: By JOANNE S. WONG | Title: Boston Book Festival a Nerd Paradise | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

Farni went on to orchestrate Harvard’s third goal as well, which lit the lamp at 6:21 in the second. The blueliner sent a shot in from the outside, and Buesser was waiting in front of the net to slam the rebound past McGill netminder Taylor Salisbury...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Bests McGill in Exhibition Matchup, 4-1 | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...Olympics themselves. If international cooperation
 and glory keep you misty-eyed from the opening 
ceremony through the last television montage, then you'll love the heady 
symbolism of the torch relay, a "journey of harmony" in which a succession of
 runners transports a flame lit by the sun's rays from the Games' ancient birthplace to the host site - in 2010, that's Vancouver - over a 
series of several months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympic-Torch Relay | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

From documentary fanatics (Ken Burns made an appearance) to adults who read kid lit (Chris Van Allsburg, author of "The Polar Express" was there, and so was Clifford the Big Red Dog) to spoken word poets, the inaugural BBF had something for everyone. Flyby is eager for the second edition...

Author: By JOANNE S. WONG | Title: Boston Book Festival a Nerd Paradise | 10/25/2009 | See Source »

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