For all its concrete and neon, Tokyo is also a city of beautiful green spaces — landscaped gardens, sprawling parks, and tranquil ponds where locals come to relax, picnic, and

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In the humid, green lowlands of Mexico’s Gulf coast, where the Sierra Madre descends toward the sea, live the Totonac, heirs to one of the great civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica.

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