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...party. A drop-dead-gorgeous crowd was tangoing away in a makeshift, open-air amphitheater. Nearby, a multiethnic group was doing the merengue. Hundreds of others were tucking into picnics by the river as a full moon rose in a cloudless sky. Much later that night, after a perfect fish soup in the Place des Vosges, I walked into the narrow passages of the Marais district and stumbled upon an impromptu block party. Someone had set up a sound system on the sidewalk, and the street was packed with people - straight and gay, young and old, black and white - dancing...
...offers an elevated view of the ocean and homey rooms decorated with old circus posters and other curiosities. Its next-door neighbor, the Inn on the Blue Horizon (787-741-3318), has one-room cottages with country-style wooden furniture, just steps from the sea. And the celebrated, open-air architecture of the Hix Island House hixislandhouse.com) farther inland, lets you feel as if you're camping but with all the privacy and amenities of a luxury rental, including appliance-filled kitchens, with rosemary and oregano bushes lining the path to the pool. The Hix House's altitude brings...
...proposed rules are not satisfying the critics or slowing the biopharmers. Open-air trials of pharmaceutical crops have taken place in 14 states, from Hawaii to Maryland. A Texas firm is selling a corn-bred enzyme that stimulates insulin production in diabetics. Clinical trials have begun for experimental crop-grown drugs to treat cystic fibrosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and hepatitis B. "Molecular farming represents the pharmaceutical industry's best opportunity to strike a serious blow against such global diseases as AIDS, Alzheimer's and cancer," says Francois Arcand, president of the Conference on Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals, held in Quebec...
PASADENA—Albert Einstein spent some of his last years stalking the wide, palm-lined avenues of this sunny town. According to local legend, he sometimes surprised students in my old school next to the California Institute of Technology by pacing through the open-air hallways while class was in session. His tenderness for children is now well-known from the letters he wrote to them. Children wrote to the famous scientist at the end of his life with questions of science, theology and life. The children were not afraid to show their ignorance to this great...
...Pouncey Tract Road. A fast-food restaurant decked out as a Pacific Northwest ski lodge, with margaritas, pad Thai with chicken, and burritos brought right to the table. A LOCAL TASTE The 17th Street Farmers' Market, 17th Street and Main Street. Locally grown vegetables and handmade crafts in an open-air market. A CULTURAL FIX Monument Avenue, between Roseneath Road and Lombardy Street. A highway of Civil War memories, featuring statues of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and (a controversial new addition) Arthur Ashe...