Word: cedars
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...chosen art and antiques from Kerr's own impressive collection are displayed in settings of tatami matting and cream walls. Some homes include stylish Japanese gardens, others offer decking that overlooks the gently flowing Kamo River. Comfort is never compromised - there are fluffy futons and under-floor heating, deep cedar baths, broadband wi-fi and small but well-equipped kitchens. And each house has a story to tell: one was a former artist's atelier; another used to be a geisha's home. (See 10 things to do in Hong Kong...
...still act, or do you think your time is best spent finding a cure for Parkinson's? Erik Guetzlaff CEDAR FALLS, IOWA...
Marianne F. Kaletzky ’08, a former Crimson arts chair, grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She now lives in New Orleans and teaches high-school English in the Jefferson Parish public-school system...
...firebase the usual way: a series of sprints down an exposed trail interspersed with a quick breather behind a hesco barrier - something like a six-cubic foot sandbag - put up for that purpose. Then we hit a creek, and followed it down about 500 meters through holly, oak and cedar forest. The creek bed was solid rock in places, smoothed by water into a taffy ribbon of undulating striped granite. We passed stone houses tucked into the riverine curves, their stilt-supported balconies jutting into the void. We glimpsed flashes of bright pink as the women ducked into doorways when...
...Jobs Are a Strategy Too Long before the U.S. arrived in Afghanistan, the Korengal was relatively rich. It wasn't farming that sustained the area's residents; the rocky hillsides grow few crops. But a lucrative trade in the region's cedar forests funded satellite-TV dishes and fancy four-wheel-drive trucks. Local lore holds that the fight with the Americans began in earnest when the U.S., acting on a tip from a rival tribe, dropped a bomb on the lumber mill of a local chief, killing some of his relatives and leading to a campaign of vengeance...