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...Northumberland's extravagant garden at Alnwick, Northumberland, pictured, which boasts the world's largest tree house and a poison garden, alnwickgarden.com. For English eccentricity at its best, visit filmmaker Derek Jarman's strange but enchanting garden on the shingle beach in Dungeness, Kent. At Prospect Cottage, in the shadow of a nuclear power plant, lavender and poppies poke out behind sculptures fashioned from old gardening tools and driftwood. Jarman featured the garden as both Gethsemane and Eden in one of his last films. There will be plenty there to tempt...
...Northumberland's extravagant garden at Alnwick, Northumberland, pictured, which boasts the world's largest tree house and a poison garden, alnwickgarden.com. For English eccentricity at its best, visit filmmaker Derek Jarman's strange but enchanting garden on the shingle beach in Dungeness, Kent. At Prospect Cottage, in the shadow of a nuclear power plant, lavender and poppies poke out behind sculptures fashioned from old gardening tools and driftwood. Jarman featured the garden as both Gethsemane and Eden in one of his last films. There will be plenty there to tempt...
...From that dazzle of sun and surf, Gow summoned up a classic of Australian theater. His 1986 play Away, which interwove the lives of three families holidaying on the coast during Christmas 1967, instantly hit audience heart strings. And in presenting young lives touched by the shadow of death, from cancer to Vietnam, Gow poetically dramatized a country's coming of age. "Another Australia emerges," dramaturg May-Brit Akerholt has written, "a country which is no longer an isolated island but part of an extended world...
...Mining and enrichment. Australia has abundant uranium-one-third of the world's known reserves-but Labor policy limits the number of mines to three. Some Labor M.P.s. are urging change. Said Shadow Revenue Minister Joel Fitzgibbon: "It makes no sense to sit on those reserves and deny ourselves valuable income." Rising prices for uranium exploration stocks suggest that the market believes restrictions will end. But uranium can't be used for power generation until it's enriched. Australia has no enrichment facility. Even some opponents of nuclear power say it should build one, since enrichment could add millions...
...TraditionsJune 4, 1981Ah, tradition! Old men return to the Yard, in the shadow of Widener Library and Memorial Church, to welcome the young to the company of the educated. Commencement is a beautiful day, even when it rains, for it represents the continuity and the renewal that comes with each new generation. Ah, tradition! For hundreds of years there have been few or no women or minorities on Harvard’s faculties, and the situation is not changing quickly. Since its inception, Harvard has hosted homosexual students, but never officially promised them that the University will be a refuge...