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Great art museums are in part about the beautiful display of money: dearly acquired works shown in costly surroundings. By that standard, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles is among the greatest. It occupies a Richard Meier-designed campus of Italian travertine high in the Santa Monica Mountains. It husbands a $5 billion-plus endowment. With that war chest--the legacy of oil mogul J. Paul Getty, who died in 1976--it built in a few decades a collection that would have taken another museum generations...
Thomas Plante asks the question roughly 20 times a year, and if it doesn't work, he's ready with the follow-up. "You say, 'Well, tell me what your dating history is like,'" explains the Santa Clara University psychology professor. "And usually they'll hand it to you on a silver platter. If they don't, you say, 'Well, do you find yourself more interested in involvement with women or with men?' If they say, 'I've never dated,' you say, 'Well, when you walk down the street, who catches your eye?" And so, gently but relentlessly, Plante...
...also grape harvest time, and grapes in the lower 48 states are ready for stomping. Check with state tourism boards for local crush and wine-tasting festivals like the Shenandoah Valley Hot Air Balloon & Wine Festival, Oct. 14 to 16, or the Loose Goose Wine Festival in California's Santa Clarita Valley...
...good children and a lump of coal to naughty ones. Also during the holidays, all of Rome traipses from one church to another to view the ancient Nativity crèches. The oldest is believed to be the 13th century crèche of Arnolfo di Cambio, in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. For the truly devout, the marathon midnight Mass at St. Peter's Basilica is free, but reservations are required (they can be made...
...letter from Santa complaining about his reindeer's death and looked into it seriously." MORTEN JENSEN, spokesman for the Danish air force, which paid a part-time Santa Claus about $5000 after flight data and veterinarian reports backed up his claim that F-16 jets screaming over his farm had frightened his animal, Rudolf, to death