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...braces and that awful acne, but for now he's content to muse on his misfit fate. Hannah, whose artistic impulses alienate her from her classmates, has dreams of moving to San Francisco to study film. But even more, she just wants to get the freak out of town...
...gardeners are waging lots of different wars--against global warming, foreign-oil dependence, processed food, obesity and neighborhood blight. Turning an old parking lot into a working farm not only helps reduce a city's carbon footprint but can also generate revenue for a down-and-out part of town. To demonstrate how much food can be grown in a small space, a 2006 pilot project on a sub-acre lot on the outskirts of Philadelphia hauled in $67,000 from crops like salad greens and baby vegetables. In Milwaukee, a 1-acre (0.4 hectare) farm filled with greenhouses, tilapia...
...still have the "meeting of continents" Tote Bag, the flyer for a "Turkish Blues Night" hosted by Istanbul, the key rings from many cities showing bridges and interlocking circles. I can remember Desmond Tutu bringing his irrepressible charm and authority to the cause of Cape Town, while flocks of bright young things tried to seduce us toward Osaka, Japan, or Paris or the "next great international city," Atlanta. One result of covering six Olympiads for this magazine was that I came to see that the real competition on display at any Olympic Games is not on the track...
...where to stay, head for a spot that is possibly even more vibrant: Kersefontein Guest Farm, a national monument that is now a luxury hotel on the Berg River, north of the town of Hopefield...
...Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, where he laid a wreath of white flowers on a stone under which ashes of those who died in the camps are buried. And he chose as the site for his only news conference of the day the police station at Sderot, a town near the edge of Gaza that has been the target of Palestinian bombardment for the past seven years. His backdrop was a stack of hundreds and hundreds of shells that have fallen on Sderot. With Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni standing behind him, Obama declared...