But after an ugly autumn, restraint may be what the Red Sox need.

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There are plenty of other possibilities for exploring the area, including the 12km hike between the villages of Shicheng and Changxi which is popular among Chinese hikers for its stunning autumn scenery: imagine red maples shrouded in morning mist with a village nestled at the bottom of a valley.

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Until then, a reliable foliage forecast is that researchers will spend their time seeing red, while everybody else simply enjoys the technicolor, sylvan swansong of the autumn.

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Vettel made a slow start to the 2012 as there were eight different winners in the first eight races, but a run of four straight victories in the autumn set him on the way to his title triple, while Red Bull retained the constructors' title.

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The Fall 2012 palette embraces many of the rich colors of autumn, such as, warm and cold natural beige, chestnut, brick red, copper, orange, musk green, blue and grey.

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