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Because sometimes the holidays are even more enjoyable in a new city. Here are the best Thanksgiving destinations to visit in the United States.

Because sometimes the holidays are even more enjoyable in a new city. Here are the best Thanksgiving destinations to visit in the United States.

© David Richter, FAIA The design's integrated and expressed response to the breadth of sustainable design opportunities is the mechanism for creating and conveying this message. The rhythm and silhouette of photovoltaic, clerestoried roof monitors echo distant mountains. Colored brick strata and weathered steel extend the patterns and colors of the desert earth and grasses that reach the horizon. Terraced native landscaping and a sculpted ground plane convey the story of the scarcity, the harvest, and the power of water in the desert while moderating historical regional flood hazards to neig...

Outlawed  My favorite literary experiences are genre-bending works that defy categorization—but it's a bonus when books turn out to be gender-benders, too, blurring the binaries past man, woman, straight, gay. Take the poem "Witch-Wife" by Edna St. Vincent Millay. It begins in the voice of someone, presumably a man, adding up a woman's charms in the style of a folk ballad: "She learned her hands in a fairy-tale,/And her mouth on a valentine." Two stanzas later, the poem becomes a feminist, possibly lesbian manifesto: "But she was not made for any man,/And she never will be all mine."

The gold medal is the top award presented annually by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to a professional whose work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture. Since the gold medal was established in 1947, the AIA has honoured the work of important architects from all over the world with the award, from such historic masters of the Modernist movement as Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier to such well-known and popular contemporary architects as Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano, Denise Scot...