Word: valleys
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Jerry: Or we can leave now, and still catch the last showing of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls at Film Forum...
...first glance, the confrontation at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, Calif., last February seemed familiar enough. Inside, two pro-business think tanks, the Brookings Institution and the World Affairs Council of Northern California, treated the Silicon Valley elite to chicken with mango sauce and a speech by a distinguished guest. Outside, environmental activists from the Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network and the Green Party chanted their disapproval...
...spent digging with trained archaeologists; afternoons include hikes to nearby petroglyphs (ancient rock drawings) and laboratory work. Rates are $59 a day for adults, $37 for children. Lodging is either on site (for large groups) or at guesthouses nearby. Check with the Raven Site staff or the Round Valley Chamber of Commerce for suggestions; a few have discounts for program participants...
...European, with some South African touches such as ostrich filet, Cape Malay curry and water-lily and lamb casserole. Service is excellent, and the local wine is abundant, inexpensive and palatable. Several of the score of multistar restaurants are among the country's Top 10. Indeed, the mountain-ringed valley of Franschoek, where French Huguenot settlers arrived 300 years ago, bringing their winemaking skills with them, is something of a gourmet capital...
...notable tourist destinations. But few foreign visitors know that hidden behind the massive, flat-topped Tafelberg (Table Mountain) that overlooks the city is another world. A 45-minute drive from Cape Town will place you amid European scenery, blue mountains, farm boundaries of fir and wattle, wide sheltered valleys and a climate that is virtually Mediterranean. The Paarl ("pearl" in Afrikaans) region, largest of the country's vineyard areas, is at the southern-hemisphere latitude equivalent of Spain's renowned Sherry region. Visitors to Constantia, Paarl and Stellenbosch have no difficulty recalling parts of France, Italy, Bavaria, Switzerland and even...