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...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...
...every Briton is ready to join the environmental monkhood. There would go the budget holiday flights to Ibiza, for one thing. But to Smit, it's the spirit that matters, a spirit embodied in his Eden. "It's a horrible cliche, but part of our goal is to remake the world," he says. "We're here to help people realize that if they each do a few things, then times 6 billion, that adds...
Three Crimson swimmers received the league’s top individual honors at this weekend’s Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Championships in East Meadow, N.Y., but troubles with its depth led the Crimson to a second-place finish behind Princeton.With Cornell’s Michael Smit, sophomore Geoff Rathgeber and senior David Cromwell shared the Moriarty Award, the prize given to the top individual swimmer. Cromwell won three individual and three relay events in the last EISL Championships of his career, setting records in the 100-yard backstroke, the 200-yard backstroke, and the 200-yard medley relay...
...These are one of Indonesia's best-known folk art forms, and are said to be based on figures from the Hindu Ramayana and Mahabharata epics. You'll also find plenty of work by expatriate artists who have called Bali home over the years, including Rudolf Bonnet and Arie Smit...
...These are one of Indonesia's best-known folk art forms, and are said to be based on figures from the Hindu Ramayana and Mahabharata epics. You'll also find plenty of work by expatriate artists who have called Bali home over the years, including Rudolf Bonnet and Arie Smit. SENIWATI GALLERY OF ART BY WOMEN This gem of a gallery, tel: (62-361) 975-485, displays a broad selection of painting, pottery and weaving from more than 40 female artists worldwide. But its main focus is on female painters from Bali itself, and on their characteristically dark orange-, brown...