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...twin isles that make up the Conrad Rangali Island haven (www.conradmaldives.com) stand out in many ways. You could happily spend your days getting some alone time, a rarity in a place so popular with honeymooners, shaping up with a health plan or indulging without one. In pursuit of the latter, it helps that the hosts take their wine very seriously. The resort has devoted two rooms to tasting, and both make delightful alternatives to the classic meal on the beach. (See reviews for 50 American wines...
...Jesus bests Lincoln in the number of published books devoted to a single person - Gopnik offers a meditation on each man's most literary qualities: Lincoln's deceptively simple legalistic language and Darwin's crystalline powers of observation. And what could have been a gimmick (a book timed to twin bicentennials is as close as historical biographies get to a home run) becomes something more, a learned treatise that worships learning. Gone is the overly twee writing of Gopnik's memoir-inflected works (Paris to the Moon, Through the Children's Gate), and in its place is a succint, convincing...
...however, biologists can feast on a far bigger banquet of data. The fossil record was scanty in Darwin's day, but now it has pushed the evidence of life on Earth back to at least 3.4 billion years ago. And while Darwin recognized that variation and heredity were the twin engines that made evolution possible, he didn't know what made them possible. It would take almost a century after the publication of On the Origin of Species for biologists to determine that the answer was DNA. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...subtle restraint. “Some movies accomplish more by leaving things out than by putting them in,” he said. Anyone who has seen the film will know immediately what Keough refers to, for while there is plenty of footage concerning the building of the Twin Towers, there is nary a mention of their destruction on September 11th. As such, this absence was one of the first topics addressed by Ryan in the Q&A. “[Marsh] really felt strongly that we would never speak about it,” Ryan said...
...creator of the Malmaison hotel chain, and interior designer Amanda Rosa in collaboration with Farnborough's owners TAG Aviation, Aviator (www.aviatorfarnborough.co.uk) is a spectacular contemporary building. Incorporating dramatic curves of aluminum, its design was inspired by the shape of an airplane propeller, with 169 guestrooms along its sinuous, elongated twin wings. (See 10 things to do in London...