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...potted or balled Christmas tree (roots still attached) so you can replant it in the backyard or donate it to the parks department. LivingChristmasTrees.org has lots of advice for do-it-yourselfers; it also "rents" living trees to residents of Portland, Ore., for $75 each. Friends of the Urban Forest of San Francisco (Fuf.net) rents nontraditional trees, such as Southern Magnolia and Strawberry, for $150, and replants them on city streets. Prefer a regular cut tree? Choose a real one that's grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers-ask local merchants if they have an organic farm supplier-or order...
...most in off-mall locales. Both companies have plans for a lot more: Penney, which operates 1,037 stores, has announced that it will open 50 stores annually through 2008, while the 817-store Kohl's intends to tack on 400 stores to the chain by 2010, some inside urban malls. The company has also said it will remodel at least 40 older stores by the end of 2007. But Robin Lewis, a retail consultant and newsletter publisher in New York City, says Kohl's will grow sales faster than Penney because its corporate structure is less bureaucratic and layered...
...column, which ended with the line “I think the Crimson would’ve slaughtered the Indians,” precipitated heated discussion over many open lists, including house lists, Fuerza, Students Taking on Poverty, and First-Year Urban Program. News of the prayer ceremony spread through these lists as well...
...film is handsomely mounted and well played (particularly by the always magical Binoche--such a wonderfully alert actress), but somehow it never draws one into its schemes. Possibly that's because Minghella (who also wrote the script) has too much on his mind--the costs of urban gentrification, the unhappinesses of migr and bourgeois life. Minghella is a decent-minded filmmaker. And a liberal-minded one too. He wants his characters to emerge morally instructed and reasonably happy. But it's not a lofty goal, and this is a movie that plods while we keep hoping it will soar...
...juniors in Bill Stroud's class are riveted by a documentary called Loose Change unspooling on a small TV screen at the Baccalaureate School for Global Education, in urban Astoria, N.Y. The film uses 9/11 footage and interviews with building engineers and Twin Towers survivors to make an oddly compelling if paranoid case that interior explosions unrelated to the impact of the airplanes brought down the World Trade Center on that fateful day. Afterward, the students--an ethnic mix of New Yorkers with their own 9/11 memories--dive into a discussion about the elusive nature of truth...