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...your corner garden shop anymore. The paths between the perennials are paved, so high heels will not plunge into the mud. There is Italian soda available at the door, and tarragon-turkey sandwiches on pita bread. "Today retailing is theater," says Don Riddle Jr., president of Homestead Gardens in Maryland, whose $10 million in revenues last year were up 21% from the year before. Homestead sold $60,000 worth of orchids last year alone, triple the amount from the year before. Among this year's favorites are tropical patio plants, a 4-ft.-high golden-daisy or a blue-potato...
...into deep space. One of the pictures is a surprisingly clear portrait of a fast-spinning, disk-shaped cloud of cosmic debris that may serve as the raw material for a solar system in eons to come. Says astronomer Chris Burrows at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland: "It sends shivers down my spine when I realize what we're looking...
...them with caution. I consider gun-control legislation ineffective and irrelevant as a way of solving the real problem. Ordinary people buy guns for protection against criminals. The best way to get guns off the street is to get criminals off the street. CHARLES F. GIESWEIN Silver Spring, Maryland...
...bewildering to watch the behavior of certain fruit flies at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. There, in the laboratories of biologists Ward Odenwald and Shang-Ding Zhang, strange things are happening inside the gallon-size culture jars. In some experiments, the female flies are cowering in groups at the top and bottom of the jars. The males, meanwhile, are having a party -- no, an orgy -- among themselves. With a frenzy usually reserved for chasing females, the males link up end-to-end in big circles or in long, winding rows that look like winged conga lines...
However, it is always the fate of the Harvard women's lacrosse team to be known for its defeats rather than its victories. Losses to Yale, Princeton (for the third year in a row), Maryland, Dartmouth and a season-finale disaster at Brown mark the season...