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...WINE JOURNEY ALONG THE RUSSIAN RIVER Steve Heimoff ($25) Part wine guide, part travelogue, this book explores California's fertile region from Alexander Valley to Sonoma...
...After a while the demonstrators lose their fire and retreat, spent, to the side of the road. We drive west toward Pakistan and the earthquake epicenter. We pass through Uri, the nearest thing to a big town in this Indian Kashmir valley, where devastated houses barely stand at odd angles, missing walls from which crumbling rock and debris poured down. An entire row of shops has lost its front, as though sliced off by a blunt cheese wire, and bars of Lux soap, pastries and plastic toys spill out onto the street. We pass broken villages and military camps, including...
...After a couple of hours, we round the final spur and Kamal Kote is before us. A valley of yellow rice terraces juts out over the Jhelum valley below and runs like a scale to the base of precipitous peaks above us. Cicadas are singing in the golden sunset. There are cedars and apple trees and clusters of big houses with handsome shiny metal roofs. But something's not right. There are deep cracks on the path we're on. Dust is swirling around the mountainsides above us. And a closer look at what we thought were houses reveals they...
...RELIGION Raised a Catholic, Miers joined the Valley View Christian Church, an evangelical congregation in suburban Dallas, in 1979. Nathan Hecht, a conservative Texas judge, introduced her to the church, which is unequivocal in its opposition to abortion and homosexuality. While Miers' faith could color her approach to issues ranging from school prayer to assisted suicide, Hecht and Valley View's minister say she would not necessarily back the church's positions in her rulings from the bench...
Fall is also grape harvest time, and grapes in the lower 48 states are ready for stomping. Check with state tourism boards for local crush and wine-tasting festivals like the Shenandoah Valley Hot Air Balloon & Wine Festival, Oct. 14 to 16, or the Loose Goose Wine Festival in California's Santa Clarita Valley...