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Charles Platiau/Reuters VANITY OR ART A Dior show in Paris in February. New York Fashion Week begins on Tuesday. By GUY TREBAY DEPENDING on who is doing the talking, fashion is bourgeois, girly, unfeminist, conformist, elitist, frivolous, anti-intellectual and a cultural stepchild…

Charity de Meer for The New York Times Christopher Swinney connects a Prius to his home’s backup power unit to help provide electricity.By JIM MOTAVALLI WHEN Hurricane Frances ripped through Gainesville, Fla., in 2004, Christopher Swinney, an anesthesiologist, was without…

Ji LeeBy JENNIFER SCHUESSLER Skip to next paragraph THE WORLD WITHOUT US By Alan Weisman. Illustrated. 324 pp. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press. $24.95. When Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” was published in 1963, the chemical giant…

Matt Gross for The New York Times Ride board, La Farge, Wis. By MATT GROSS NOTHING but sagebrush for 130 miles,” said the construction worker in the orange vest who was temporarily blocking U.S. Highway 20 in eastern Oregon. As my Volvo idled in the midday heat, I looked past her at…

Susana Raab for The New York Times At Rustico, the challenge is to match the right dishes with the right beers and ales from the restaurant’s selection of 310. By SUNSHINE FLINT ALEXANDRIA, VA., is only 10 minutes by car from downtown Washington, but the two restaurant scenes…

Stefano Buonamici for The New York Times At Fundació Joan Miró, a show of works by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. By GREGORY DICUM IT was a cool spring day at the foot of La Rambla, Barcelona's famous — and famously overrun — main promenade. I had been strolling…

Chris Warde-Jones for The New York Times Bulicame is one of the natural sulfur springs that dot the province of Viterbo, near Rome. They were discovered by the Romans in the fourth century B.C. By DAVID FARLEY "IT'S an inferno in here,” yelled a middle-aged woman as she plunged…

Erik Jacobs for The New York Times NOT SO HUMBLE Fried clams, big bellies bulging, at the Clam Box in Ipswich, Mass. By DAVID LEITE RECAPTURING a childhood memory is nearly impossible. Chasing after it in a black 1964 Thunderbird convertible with red interior certainly helps. The…

Ed Alcock for The New York Times In the summer, the Eiffel Tower is open until 12:45 a.m., and once an hour its own lights fire off. By ALISON SMALE LIKE many of the best things in life, this one came along by chance — though it had been hiding in plain sight. On a witheringly hot…

Kevin Moloney for The New York Times The church at Laguna Pueblo. By MARY DUENWALD IN October of 1852, a French clergyman saddles up a fine cream-colored mule and rides south out of Santa Fe. As the new Catholic bishop of the territory of New Mexico, he is embarking on his first…