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Presents a guide to houses offered for sale in areas in the United States that are ideal for snowmobiling enthusiasts. Experiences of Ken Krohne and his wife, Faye Ann, both snowmobiling enthusiasts who bought a two-bedroom house in Shingleton, Michigan; Contact information.

Focuses on houses near national forests in the U.S. Jasper, Arkansas; Aragon, New Mexico; Alta Sierra, California.

Features a mural of four men working on a rig that is hanging in a school library in Bronx, New York City. Painter of the Soundview mural; Restoration of the mural by the Public Art for Public Schools program; Loss of many of the school's treasures.

Examines the problems of an athletic complex in Bronx, New York City. Size of the field; Lockers that were too small to fit football equipment; Lack of football goal posts.

Reports efforts to supply fresh fruits and vegetables to residents of Washington Heights and Inwood in Manhattan, New York City. Neighborhood's love for vegetables; Public meeting about potential greenmarket sites.

Features the Croton Aqueduct in Manhattan Island in New York City. Distance covered by the flowing water from Croton River in Westchester County; Path of the aqueduct in Westchester Countyl Comments of architect Robert Kornfeld Jr. on the importance of the aqueduct to the history of New York.

Features home of Bill Buice, a lawyer and president of the Keats-Shelley Association of America, in Shelter Island Heights in New York. Architecture; Interior design; Description of Buice's extensive library.

Focuses on the filmmaking course financed by the New York Foundation for the Arts, held in New York City. Community spirit; Benefits to participants and volunteers.

Reports on the opening of the Bronx, New York city-based shopping center called the River Plaza. Retail stores within the center; Competition with local stores in the area; Convenience for the people living in the area.

Reports on the shortage of toilets at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York. Parks commissioner Adrian Benepe's denial of such shortage; Coach Jose Ortiz's concerns that urinating in the bushes harms the image of Hispanic Americans; Marketing of the Queens Museum of Art.

Reports that Johnny Colon, the mainstay of New York City's Latin music scene in the 1960s and 1970s, plans to revive his music school. Funding from SCAN New York, a nonprofit organization; Death of his wife Stephanie Munoz; Kinds of music to be taught.

Reports that families of the American Airlines Flight 587 plane crash victims have accepted settlements from American Airlines and Airbus North America. Plan of Robinson Marte, who lost his mother in the crash, to move to the Dominican Republic after college to be with his grandmother and aunts.

Features the four-bedroom house of Stephen and Regina Humanitzki in Sag Harbor, New York. Description of the house.

Focuses on the housing development plan on the empty lot in the Hunts point section in Bronx, New York City. Approval for the project by the state's Housing Finance Authority; Recruitment of a construction company by the city to build 193 mixed-income apartments on one site; Transformation of the physical and demographic landscape.

The quickest way to drive from the Washington, D.C., area to Savannah, Ga., is to steel your nerves, grit your teeth and high-tail it for nine and a half hours down the monotonous, multilane, McDonald's-laden highway called I-95. Looking for Southern culture? Try a McRib sandwich. But there's an alternative. It'll take you a lot longer - six days or so - but offers so much more: a mishmash of coastal and inland roads that form U.S. 17, from Winchester, Va., as far as Savannah. The route has one constant appeal - good barbecue - and, outside of gas expenses, it offers plenty of frugal options: bursts of Civil War history, alligator-filled wildlife reserves, old plantations and schlocky miniature golf courses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

THE quickest way to drive from the Washington, D.C., area to Savannah, Ga., is to steel your nerves, grit your teeth and high-tail it for nine and a half hours down the monotonous, multilane, McDonald's-laden highway called I-95. Looking for Southern culture? Try a McRib sandwich. But there's an alternative. It'll take you a lot longer -- six days or so -- but offers so much more: a mishmash of coastal and inland roads that form U.S. 17, from Winchester, Va., as far as Savannah. The route has one constant appeal -- good barbecue -- and, outside of gas expenses, it offers plenty of frugal options: bursts of Civil War history, alligator-filled wildlife reserves, old plantations and schlocky miniature golf courses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

FASHION WEEK kicked off this weekend, and even visitors who couldn't care less about what the hot look for next spring might be will surely notice at least two changes around town. Thanks to the models, average female thigh circumference has been reduced by about half; and thanks to the media you'll hear endless mentions of Bryant Park, that seven-acre swath of green nestled between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas between 40th and 42nd Streets and that for a few days is the city's tented center of couture. Bryant Park has come far since it was rescued from urban decay in the 1980s. There's the vast green lawn, the shade of London plane trees, plentiful green chairs and tables you can move as you'd like (try that in the '80s), an outdoor Reading Room, a carousel playing French music and the Manhattan equivalent of a Saharan oasis: public bathrooms so clean and attractive that you'll think they must be a mirage. (The private organization that runs the public park, the Bryant Park Corporation, should give classes on urban bathroom management.) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IN much of Sao Paulo, window-shopping is simply not practical: the concrete city is too vast for sidewalk strolling. Instead, residents who can afford higher-end merchandise drive to centers of consumption known in Brazil as ''shoppings''; in the United States, they are called malls. But there is a new exception: Vila Madalena, a hilly neighborhood in the western zone. Long known as a student hangout for its cheap beers and late-night samba dancing, Vila Madalena has seen an influx of quirky boutiques, which is turning this night-life hub into a pedestrian-friendly shopping arcade. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ABOUT 90 miles outside Rio de Janeiro, after the bikinis of Ipanema give way to shantytowns, industrial suburbs and finally green hills, a dozen empty 9,000-liter oak casks lie in a new cellar outside a 18th-century Portuguese colonial farmhouse surrounded by 1,500 acres of forest, pasture and sugar cane. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers information on various aspects that contribute towards making Queens in New York City, a popular tourist destination. Over a period of time tourism in Queens have enhanced because of various reasons including the development of restaurants that offer a variety of cuisines, and shopping malls. The other attractions of Queens includes art galleries and cultural centers.

Focuses on the appearance of a photograph by David Rosenfeld in a U.S. postage stamp issued October 4, 2004. Picture of wispy clouds taken during a sunset on the Maine coast; Inclusion of the item in a 15-stamp set called Cloudscapes; Popularity of the cloud stamps in City Island, New York.

Focuses on the opposition of the residents of Ferry Point, a tiny neighborhood in Bronx, New York City, to the planned construction of the BJ's Wholesale Club retail store in the area. Fear of the residents that the store will bring in more trucks and cars that will clog the entrance to the neighborhood.

Focuses on the television production of the Picture of the Homeless, an organization of homeless people in New York City. Features of the video; Way by which homeless people are depicted in the video; Feasibility of the production to promote the preservation of the civil rights of the homeless.

Reports on the status of the hostilities between Korean immigrants who run green-groceries and immigrant Mexican employees in New York City. Accusation of Mexicans on the violation of Koreans concerning minimum-wage laws; Concerns on the possible eruption of violence between the two races; Talks initiated to address the issue by local officials.

Looks into the fundraising activity of the Missionary Christian Church in Bronx, New York for renovation of the church's ground floor. Sale of alcapurrias and flans to neighbors and business establishments; Comments of the customers on the food; Amount of money raised so far.

Focuses on the outlook of resident Anna Szczebiot to the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City. Expectation towards the pending commotion that the convention will cause; Concerns in case protesters will get out of control; Reaction on the possibility of assigning a sniper on the top floor of his apartment.

Reports on the transformation of a neighborhood in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. Transformation of the area in the 1970s as buildings burned down and people moved away; Signs of an increase in the social and economic health of the neighborhood in the 1980s, including population growth and more owner-occupied buildings; Plans to build a housing development called Tiffany Gardens on the site of the largest empty lot remaining in Hunts Point; Symbol of the end of a bleak era in the South Bronx.

Focuses on the initiative of a group of children to participate in a community service project in New York City. Plan of the children to make a presentation to local officials about problems they find in the neighborhood; Reaction of the public to the children's initiative; Impact of the move on social issues in the city.

Discusses the challenges faced by gay people living in parts of New York City outside of Manhattan, such as the Bronx and Queens. Impact of the traditional beliefs and family life in these residential neighborhoods; Profiles of several gay people faced with the disapproval of family and friends; Economic barriers of living in communities like Manhattan, Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Key West, Florida that are open to gays; Discussion of complexities facing same-sex couples at home and at work.

Details the residential property owned by dentist Tom Simrell in Cherry Ridge, Pennsylvania. Installation of several ponds; Description of the farmhouse; Citation of familiarity with the property.

Features the two-bedroom house with a one-bedroom boathouse being sold by Donna and Harry Gazelle in Sunapee, New Hampshire. Description of the property and the boathouse; Location of the primary residence on a cliff overlooking Lake Erie.

Profiles Jim Himes, a New York City-based financial specialist who provides services for people in poor neighborhoods including assistance for cashing checks, paying taxes and other personal finance chores. Career highlights; Fees charged.

Describes the house owned by artist Stephen and Francy Stoller along the Champlain Canal in New York. Number of rooms; Historical importance of the house.

Reports on Co-op City residents' reactions to the placement of private buses under the control of the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Reports on efforts to restore the Grand Concourse boulevard in Bronx, New York City, as a green, environment-friendly roadway. Proposals to redesign the boulevard; Plans to replace the highway-style signs along the Concourse.

Features houses in the United States. Types of houses; Prices; Owners and developers.

Focuses on the level of school segregation in New York City 50 years after the landmark case "Brown vs. Board of Education" in 1954. Increase of black-white segregation in New York City; Comments from sociologist John R. Logan on the difficulty of measuring segregation; Calculation of the dissimilarity index.

Features Face to Face Media, a firm that offers corporate-quality videoconferencing to Dominicans in New York City and in the Dominican Republic. Cost of videoconferencing; Company's clientele; Comments from client Jessica Vazquez on the reactions of her family to the videoconference.

Reports that the first New York City franchise of Pollo Campero, a Central American chicken restaurant, will be opened by investor Neil Colley in Corona. Success of the franchise in Los Angeles, California and in Houston, Texas because of the large Latino population in the areas; Description of the Pollo Campero chicken.

Features an interview with Harry Johnson, emeritus professor of finance at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, and his wife, Lynn Johnson, about the design of their house in Orleans, Massachusetts.

Reports on the new citizenship examination of the federal government in the U.S. Need for applicants to describe photographs depicting scenes of everyday life; Restructuring of the curriculum by the nonprofit organization; Response of the immigrant advocacy groups on the scheme.

Reports on the probable closure of Starbucks coffeehouse in Manhattan, New York City. Penetration of the enterprise to undeserved communities; Disapproval of the residents on the planned closure of the coffeehouse; Reconsideration of the decision of Starbucks.