The New York Botanical Garden

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Karl Rove is the special guest at a fundraiser in Washington.

And there's a cannoli eating contest at the San Gennarro Festival.

The new 28,000 square-foot Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory, funded partially by you-know-who and designed by Polshek Partnership, opens this week at the New York Botanical Garden. It will be open to the public until Sunday before being closed for students and scientists to study molecular systems and plant genomics. Get your wiggly worms here.  read more »