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...Increased awareness of the environment, plus a slew of popular gardening shows and coffee-table tomes in recent years mean that herbaceous borders and potting mix are as hotly debated by trendy young home-buyers as they are by seniors in straw-brimmed hats. "People touring gardens have got younger due to changes in lifestyle," affirms Michael Italiaander of U.S.-based specialist tour operator, Expo Garden Tours...
...heels is the progenitor of Japan's alternative-music festival scene, the Fuji Rock Festival (fujirockfestival.com), from July 30-Aug. 1. This year, it will showcase nearly a hundred acts, among them Lou Reed, the Pixies, the White Stripes, Courtney Love and Franz Ferdinand. Pitched at a slightly younger audience is the two-day Summer Sonic fest (summersonic.com/top.html), on Aug. 7-8. Held in Tokyo and Osaka simultaneously, the four-year-old event will present the currently red-hot Avril Lavigne, along with the Beastie Boys, Green Day, N.E.R.D. and Sum 41. Finally, the more underground True People...
...Lacoste's collared polo shirts, for example, now come in a more fitted shape with a shorter length to appeal to a younger generation that favors looks that hug rather than hang. And instead of seeing the shirt (available in 25 colors) paired with crisp khakis, you're more likely to see it on top of a flared skirt or hipster jeans...
Reform or Rhetoric? EGYPT President Hosni Mubarak's appointment of a new government led to renewed speculation about his succession. While Mubarak has denied that he's grooming his younger son, Gamal, a senior member of the ruling National Democratic Party, to replace him, new Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, pictured, and eight other new ministers are part of Gamal's team of young modernizers. Opinion was divided on whether the new Cabinet heralded real change. "This is a new generation, with new ideas and a new way of thinking," a senior official told TIME. But Hisham Kassem, publisher...
Tsurumi said that the younger Bush boasted that his father’s political string-pulling had gotten him to the top of the waiting list for the Texas National Guard instead of serving in Vietnam. When other students were frantically scrambling for summer jobs, Tsurumi said, Bush explained that he was planning instead for a visit to his father in Beijing, where the senior Bush was serving at the time as the special U.S. envoy to China...