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...London's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Kew Gardens boasts one of the world's largest plant collections, and is also famous for its groundbreaking greenhouses. "Gardens of Glass: Chihuly at Kew" runs until Jan. 15, 2006, so visitors can see the huge works embedded in summer's thick foliage, glowing in an autumnal nest of bare twigs or dusted with winter snow. Chihuly has shown in gardens before, but never in Europe...
...London's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew . Kew Gardens boasts one of the world's largest plant collections, and is also famous for its groundbreaking greenhouses. "Gardens of Glass: Chihuly at Kew" runs until Jan. 15, 2006, so visitors can see the huge works embedded in summer's thick foliage, glowing in an autumnal nest of bare twigs or dusted with winter snow. Chihuly has shown in gardens before, but never in Europe. Some pieces are indoors, in the Palm House (built 1844-48), the Temperate House (1860-99) and the 1986 Princess of Wales Conservatory Loh and Behold Avant...
...through the woods with the Timberland Trail Lizards ($110; timber land.com) A thick rubber cap near the toe and saddle near the mid-foot help clear brush on the trail, while lightweight Gore-Tex stitching keeps water off your socks...
...insult to my talents," says Carol Holyoke, 39, who shocked her feminist friends when she took her new husband's name four years ago. "So perhaps I feel a touch of rebelliousness in shirking a doctrine that ultimately seemed oppressive to me because it was slathered on so thick." The decision to become a Holyoke, she says, was empowering. "I was adopted at 18 months, so having my name changed was nothing new. When I got married, the change was my choice, and that felt really good." --With reporting by Logan Orlando
...perch. The wrenching decision: whether to lend federal support to embryonic-stem-cell research, unleashing potential cures for horrific illnesses and life-shattering injuries, but at the cost of giving government sanction to the destruction of human embryos. Bush had searched both his soul and his 3-in.-thick briefing book. He had quizzed experts and ethicists and even the doctors in the White House medical unit. In that 11-min. speech, set not in the Oval Office but against an expanse of Texas prairie, the President talked about the dream of wiping out Alzheimer's disease and childhood diabetes...