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...luxurious as the upmarket structures created by the Scotland-based TreeHouse Company (www.treehouse- company.com), which look more like mansions than playhouses. The designers can install anything from kitchens and bathrooms to under-floor heating and electricity. The circular cedarwood dining lodge the company erected in an ash in West Sussex, England, for instance, has all that plus a telephone connection, a spiral staircase, 13 windows and a peaked roof. No wonder the private, $185,000 retreat outdoes any earthbound first-class dining hall. "Forty years ago, nobody envisioned things like jacuzzis and log stoves up in the trees," says John...
DIED. JAMES CALLAGHAN, 92, British Prime Minister whose mild manners came to be viewed as complacency during his three-year tenure, which was beset by a series of labor strikes in the late 1970s, and helped usher rival Margaret Thatcher into office; in East Sussex, south of London...
...drums beat and crowds roar. Others follow, bearing burning torches and letting off deafening fireworks. The air is dense with the smoke of vast bonfires, ablaze in surrounding fields and on hillsides. No, it's not a re-enactment of Dante's Inferno. It's Bonfire Night in the Sussex town of Lewes. Held every year on Nov. 5, Bonfire Night nominally commemorates the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 - an attempt by English Catholics to blow up the upper house of Parliament and launch an uprising against King James I's Protestant rule. These days, however...
...drums beat and crowds roar. Others follow, bearing burning torches and letting off deafening fireworks. The air is dense with the smoke of vast bonfires, ablaze in surrounding fields and on hillsides. No, it's not a re-enactment of Dante's Inferno. It's Bonfire Night in the Sussex town of Lewes...
DIED. JOHN MAYNARD SMITH, 84, evolutionary biologist who revolutionized the study of animal behavior by applying game theory to the study of evolution; in Sussex, England. He answered such questions as why parents sometimes stick around to raise their children but other times leave the burden to a mate...