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...small garden and access to a quiet beach with mesmerizing views of the medieval walled town of Portoferraio. It's also here that John Le Carré set part of his best-selling novel, The Constant Gardener, and in his author's note he urges readers to visit: "There is even an oil room [once used for crushing olives, now for wine tastings] where those in search of life's answers to life's great riddles may seek temporary seclusion." Or at least, some fine Elban wine. www.tenutalachiusa.it
...know Bobby so it was pretty exciting,” she said of yesterday’s event. “I thought he was just going to be in town and come visit the bakery...
...Today, the relatively isolated and snowbound Minami Uonuma City is old and emptying out; the cavernous bullet train station is literally empty on the day I visit. The hospital stopped offering childbirth services in 2002, and the local economy is on life support. "The government's finances are deficit-ridden," says Saito. "We're under great pressure to control spending...
...through his reliance on community medicine, Saito has managed to keep most of his programs in the black, without sacrificing quality. I accompany one the center's physical therapists on a home visit to an elderly couple who live in a drafty house they built themselves. The 61-year-old husband (the couple asked not to be named) has been mostly bed-ridden for seven years, since he broke several vertebrae in a fall. The visits, which cost around $60 each, are funded almost entirely by the government in keeping with Japan's system of socialized medicine, but they allow...
...image. In the poorest cases, the half-photograph, half-paintings are off-kilter, stale, seemingly torn from the pages of a coloring book. Naturalism in “Vanished Kingdoms” is as distant as Tibet: while the colorists may have been familiar with the places the Wulsins visited, the workshop was far, far away from the photographs’ referents. In addition, the slides have degraded in the last three-quarters of a century, and enlarging the slides has exaggerated the somewhat splotchy coloring that makes the otherwise impressive miniaturist painting seem careless.RELICS AND ORNAMENTSIt is little surprise...