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Belfast's town center and quayside may be gentrifying, but greater delights beckon to the north. Half an hour by car from Northern Ireland's capital, the beautiful, unspoiled coastline boasts miles of craggy cliffs alternating with white sandy beaches that set off the clear blue-green ocean. Dotting the coast are colorful old harbors and tiny villages tucked away in green glens, waiting to be explored. Drive along the spectacular 40-km A2 coast road from Larne to Cushendall, continue to Ballycastle, either via the coast road or across the moors, and take in the following sights...
...Background chatter died out as the members, still students in the truest Harvard sense, folded hands in laps and faced forward, listening attentively to the introduction of the wines. The group would taste six different wines that night—spanning such geographic expanses as the wine fields of Northern Italy’s Adige River Valley to the foothills of Cerro Aconcagua in Western Argentina—and all ringing up for at most $15 a bottle.BOTTLES AND BOOT CAMPIn Vino Veritas was born five years ago, the brainchild of then-HLS-student Crystal Silva, according to Heather...
...Government, Jenkins ruled, did not deliberately expose civilians to radioactivity in the 1950s, as some have suggested, when test bombs were being detonated almost monthly. Nonetheless, officials were negligent. When winds were blowing eastward from the test site toward the sparsely populated stretches of Utah and northern Arizona, the Government seemed unconcerned. Radiation sensors were few and often operated improperly. And officials disregarded evidence of potential hazards. Said former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs: "The tragic thing is that all this could have been prevented...
...flared skirt for increased water shedding capacity,” according to her catalog. She said her interest in aquatic themes and human technology is rooted in her early fascination with contrasting industrial decay and swampy land. “I’m from northern New Jersey, and when you take the train from my house to New York you pass through the Meadowlands,” she said. “They’re beautiful swamps full of industrial ruin.” Van Cleef, who formerly focused on painting, recruited her friends to help produce around...
Under director Jill Medvedow, the ICA is involved in creating art as well as exhibiting it; among its many projects, the museum funds outdoor conceptual art installations across the city, like this year’s computer-animated illustrations of pedestrians by Julian Opie displayed on LED screens on Northern Avenue Bridge...