Visions of Sugar Plums
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George Balanchineâs production of âThe Nutcracker,â which celebrated its 2,000th performance on Wednesday, continues to bring new felicities of drama and construction.
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Reader Himanshu Bhutani sends us a picture.
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By Kathy Gilbert, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Mar. 3--"A dead plant is an opportunity," joked Carol Reese, extension area specialist in ornamental horticulture from Jackson, Tenn. at Greenway Farms in Hixson last month.   Ms.
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By RICK BARRETT  A simple sugar found in fruit and a variety of other sources could be converted to fuel for cars and trucks.
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By Cheryl Winkelman, STAFF WRITER  We are not alone in the universe if the numerous sightings of unidentified flying objects are to be believed.
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By Georgia Tasker, The Miami Herald  Dec. 18--Throughout all seasons, they color our skyline in cerise, orange, pink, yellow. Flowering trees sprout in South Miami, along Interstate 95 and are riotous at Metrozoo.
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By Greg Avery, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  Dec.
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By Story by RICK NATHANSON Illustration by CATHRYN CUNNINGHAM Of the Journal  At the beginning of the summer, people were facing tough choices about which plants they might be willing to let die during what seemed like a dry cycle with no end.
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Jun. 19--Call it the sugar diet.   A University of Puget Sound botanist and her students are testing the sweetener's restorative powers on the South Sound's vulnerable short-grass prairies.
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By Margaret Slaby, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--You've planted and pruned, watered and watched it grow. And now, at last, the first crop of tree fruit is ripening on the branch. Then the birds descend. They perch and peck, pillage and plunder.
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The story of the little star over Bethlehem has many people looking up this time of year, as scientists at planetariums try to explain what the wise men were following.
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Bob Lemos of Lemos Farm on Highway 92 near Half Moon Bay is optimistic about the Christmas tree season. He started selling trees last weekend, he said.
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There&#39;s no denying that the PSP is a slickly designed gadget with a certain fashionable cachet. The images are breathtaking. Not that there&#39;s anything new here in terms of graphics, but seeing
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By Sara Kennedy, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Dec.
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By Mary Lane Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb.
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By Photos by Gary Whitney For the Deseret Morning News  When Gary and Susan Whitney went to China this fall, their brains were overwhelmed with images: Rising water in the Yangtze River Gorge. Pandas lazing about in trees. Temples. Pagodas. Soviet-style apartment buildings.
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By By Mariecar Mendoza, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Sep.