Soon enough, Mr. Fischl and his generation were flushed out of Eden by the next wave, led by Jeff Koons with his gigantic kitschy rabbit sculptures and Damien Hirst with his embalmed tiger shark floating in formaldehyde.

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Studies into the superweed are being carried out at Eden by Camborne School of Mines scientist, Dr Loveday Jenkin.

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The conversation between Couri and the patient is out of the Bizarro World Garden of Eden: Eve walks in with full knowledge of good and evil, and the snake tries to disabuse her of it with doubletalk.

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The Museum of Natural History's director, Henry Fairfield Osborn, believed northeastern Asia had been the Garden of Eden for mammalian life, and Andrews set out to prove it.

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The villas' greatest amenity, however, is their proximity to Eden Rock itself, built atop a craggy promontory rising out of the beach just a few feet away.

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