On either side of the road, up the green slope and down on the lake side, turnouts and driveways for lovely inns, kooky ersatz Austrian mini-villages, hip coffee houses and eccentric galleries appear invitingly like pictures in a pop-up book.

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As you drive, the right side of the instrument panel display fills up with encouraging green leaves, like efficiency kudzu.

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But Couples became unglued on the seventh hole, when he sent his approach shot over the back of the green, chipped off the front side, then watched an uphill putt slide up and then back down.

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But England's decision to bowl first on a green-tinged track meant the spotlight fell first on the home side's rejigged batting line-up.

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In green architecture news, a New York architect has come up with a proposal to blanket the unsightly West Side Highway with air-cleaning ivy and dramatic waterfalls, while in Sarajevo, we saw the opening of the winding Festine Lente pedestrian bridge.

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