NEW YORK — Fueled by an exuberant crowd, Miguel Cotto targeted the eye. Cotto unloaded so many punishing uppercuts and head shots to Antonio Margarito, the Mexican star’s right eye was sealed shut. A crowd of 21,239 at Madison Square Garden gasped — then roared for Cotto to continue — as the squeamish scene flashed on the big screen. Read full article > >

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Mike Krzyzewski’s next win, which could come Tuesday against Michigan State at Madison Square Garden, will be his 903rd, one more than Bob Knight.

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Will argue for its passage in Rose Garden speech.

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First in a series. It was a Monday morning 10 years later, and they had regained control. The home-brewed coffee was flavored with a touch of cinnamon; the tomatoes in the garden were turning red on the vine. Shari Tolbert, 42, finished a training run for her upcoming marathon, straightened her blond hair and polished her acrylic nails. She fried bacon and eggs for breakfast, and the smell drew the kids from their rooms. The daughter sang Beyonce. The son wore two shades of yellow. “Go change, because you look like a confused bumblebee,” Shari told him, and they both laughed. Read full article > >

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After three or four hours digging and weeding, a hot bath, a soft chair and a couple of aspirin have their appeal, but I like to think I’ve got a fair few years of full-bore gardening in front of me. And yet I do wonder what happens when you reach that point in life when the limbs are too feeble or arthritic for the work. For many folks, not much will change. They will continue to view the space around the house as a necessary evil and get the mow-and-blow brigade to cut the grass, mulch the beds and shape the bushes. (Favorite cringe scene of the past year: mow-and-blower sculpting a gumdrop azalea with gas-powered hedge clippers.) But for active gardeners, who love to nurture plants and work the soil, the decision to scale back gardening also means scaling back the garden. This can be hard, to let go of beds that are full of memories as well as flowers. Read full article > >

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IN THE LOOP | It’s such a pity that, despite persistent GOP entreaties, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie still refuses to run for president. Actually, seems he’s refusing to run — or even walk — anywhere, preferring instead to take a state helicopter to his son’s high school baseball game. Naturally, this has gotten him into some hot water this week in the Garden State. “Choppergate” began Tuesday evening when the Newark Star -Ledger reported, within hours of the event, that Christie and his wife arrived in the 55-foot long helicopter just before the game started, landing on an adjacent football field. He then ambled over to a black state car with tinted windows that drove the first couple the 100 yards to the stands. Read full article > >

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Ellen Epstein has stopped to smell the sweet williams in the Upper Garden at Mount Vernon. The art appraiser from Katonah, N.Y., has been to George Washington’s riverside home several times, but not for at least 10 years, and the place has changed somehow. “I remember this garden wasn’t like this at all,” she said, looking up to take in the walled one-acre landscape. As she surveys the fruit orchard, boxwood parterres and flower borders, a couple of gardeners plant clumps of golden-flowered calendulas near the grapevine trellises. They are putting the final touches on a fundamental reworking of Washington’s pleasure garden. Begun last August and now virtually complete, the new garden re-creates what experts believe is a far closer representation of the one Washington knew in the late 18th century. Read full article > >

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George Washington’s Mount Vernon pleasure garden revamped for authenticity

Since Britain’s Prince Charles came to town this month to talk up the vital need for more sustainable food systems, another event pressed the message home for me: exploding watermelons. In China, the land of lethal milk, toxic pet food and tainted honey, we now have cucurbits that have spontaneously detonated after farmers sprayed them with a growth hormone. Read the label, guys! The industrialization of agriculture is one thing; the globalization of it is something else. The closer I am to the source of the veggies I eat, the better I feel about myself and the planet. The most satisfying food on my plate is the carrot or pea that I knew as a seed. In my garden, I’ve been harvesting fattening heads of lettuce this month along with great quantities of kale, all grown with a small investment of money — a few dollars for seed — and the delightful duty of raising these plants. I’ve just put in some tomatoes I started in March and sowed some parsnip seed for a fall harvest. The beans and cucumbers will be close behind. The cycle spins merrily. Read full article > >

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Designer Bunny Guinness explains the concept of her M&G Garden and talks about how it reached the Chelsea Flower Show.

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Andrea Wulf looks right at home in the U.S. Botanic Garden conservatory — a couple of hours off a plane from Atlanta, fresh from an interview for “All Things Considered,” the horticultural historian poses for a photographer amid the palms and the orchids and a thousand other tropical flowers. Wulf’s new book, “ Founding Gardeners ,” recently reached No. 32 on the New York Times bestseller list. An unlikely feat for a gardening history, but Wulf has hit on something: She’s taken a quartet of iconic American figures and wrapped them in the zeitgeist of the postmodern victory garden. Her book argues that George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were all dirt-under-the-fingernails gardeners whose love of the soil shaped the way they forged a nascent country. Read full article > >

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The National Botanic Garden of Wales is to receive £800,000 for the next year after a review found the only way it could function was with public money.

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Carmelo Anthony received a lengthy standing ovation at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night when he made his Knicks debut.

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Lots of kissing in the Philipines, the man with a tank in his garden and a robot marathon. It’s the week’s weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat’s Odd Box with Dominic Bryne.

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Some ex-MoD equipment gets a second life in the hands of enthusiasts like Shaun Mitchell, who restores old vehicles in his garden and drives them around the streets of Norfolk.

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After selling out Madison Square Garden, he’s selling out a movie theater near you: Justin Bieber’s bio-documentary Never Say Never, released by Paramount, pulled in at least $12 million Friday, its first day in theaters. The new romantic comedy Just…

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