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...wasn't God who allowed an outdoor theme park to build a million-gallon mountain of artificial snow while the Southeast was running dry; it was Governor Perdue and his fellow elected officials. They also allowed the wasteful irrigation of Georgia's cotton farms and the rampant overbuilding and overslurping of metropolitan Atlanta...
...Park Avenue Potluck (Rizzoli International Publications) How and what do New York City's wealthiest eat? This book by Florence Fabricant (with the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) lets you peek...
...late 1990s, Tim Smit - an archaeologist turned pop-music producer - decided to build a new Eden. The Dutch-born Englishman envisioned a grand environmental-education park in the depressed southwestern English county of Cornwall - with the world's biggest greenhouses as its centerpiece. All he needed was the money. Smit turned to private funders and gave them a professional pitch. "I told them, 'We are going to build the Eighth Wonder of the World in a clay pit west of Cornwall, it's going to be wonderful, and you'll want to be a part of it,'" Smit says. "'Also...
...rights, Eden should have been a commercial disaster, as even its founder admits. "All environmental-science centers go bust, because they're boring as s____," he says. But Eden wasn't boring, and it didn't go bust. The park has pulled in more than 9 million visitors since it opened, and it's still one of Britain's top attractions, more popular than the Tower of London. It helps that Eden is visually stunning. Visitors descend into the former clay hole, now landscaped and studded with native vegetation, to arrive at the main attraction: two honeycombed domes, shaped like...
...first witness to testify yesterday, Julie A. Sitler, said she was walking along Park Drive with her boyfriend when she saw Rodriguez, Abreu, and Colono on the sidewalk outside the 7-Eleven...