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...East End of Long Island is complete without a stop at Ternhaven Cellars, a tiny shop located in Greenport. The winery is steps away from Greenport's many shops, galleries and eateries. Harold Watts, Ternhaven's owner and winemaker, is a retired Columbia University economics professor who used to tinker at winemaking in his Manhattan apartment. When he left teaching, he bought several acres and started a modest operation, the ultimate mom-and-pop winery of the area. Ternhaven's sign reads LAST WINERY BEFORE FRANCE--bragging rights earned by being the easternmost winery in the state...
...serious comedies offers up Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) and Peter Shaffer (Equus, Amadeus) at their funniest. The plays operate within the conceits of the dramatic and artistic spheres, respectively, in order to highlight the contrasts between illusion and reality, the unseen and the visible. Both plays tinker with theatrical conventions to create an evening of non-stop hysterics. Through Saturday, April 12 at 8 p.m. Tickets $8, $5 for students and seniors, $4 for Adams House residents, available at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. Adams House Pool Theatre, 13 Bow St., Cambridge...
...turn into biodegradable plastic. Other companies have field-tested a cross between a flounder and a tomato to see if a fish gene can help a fruit stay fresh in freezing weather. The U.S. and the rest of the world are locked in a fight over how much to tinker with and how much to tell about what is now inside what...
...vigorously defended students’ first amendment rights in earlier rulings. “It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate,” the 7-2 majority wrote in the 1969 Tinker v. Des Moines decision...
...different elements of the plan, running different options by scores of outside economists. Bush did not seriously consider a payroll-tax reduction, which some economists argue is fairer and would provide the most immediate tax relief and spending incentive. Aides say the President did not want to tinker with the Social Security trust fund that theoretically gets those payments...