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...Invasive plants are one of the greatest ecological problems we are facing right now," says W. Gary Smith, a landscape architect based in Austin. "My public enemy number one is the Norway maple." Popular for providing shade in yards across the Northeast, the Norway maple grows up to 30 ft. high in 23 U.S. states. New Hampshire classifies it as a noxious weed; selling or transporting it is illegal, and fines for doing so can range from $250 to $500 per plant...
...time she was 2, her nursemaid had declared that she was "pretty as a lady bird." And with that, her name was decided. Her fate, though, wasn't decided until 20 years later. In August 1934, just 10 weeks after she had graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in history and journalism, she met an ambitious former teacher named Lyndon Johnson. Three months after that, they were married, and she went from studying history to making...
Lady Bird Johnson was 94 when she died July 11 at the Johnson ranch near Austin, surrounded by family and friends. It was a peaceful end to a life that had had its share of turmoil. Like her husband, she arrived at the White House the hard way, catapulted there by the murder of John F. Kennedy. Just as daunting, her predecessor as First Lady was Jacqueline Kennedy--to put it mildly, a hard act to follow. She couldn't hope to play Jackie, and wisely she didn't try. Her own style was modest, warm and reassuring, which...
...fragile, her eyesight diminished by macular degeneration, a cruelty for a woman whose joy in life came from watching the birds and the flowers of her beloved Texas Hill Country, former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson passed away at her home in Austin from natural causes. A few weeks earlier, she had been admitted to a hospital for tests after suffering from what a family member said was a low-grade fever...
...such incident involved American Airlines flight 1348, which was supposed to fly from San Francisco to Dallas on Dec. 29. The flight was among the 69 that American diverted that day because of storms in Texas. Passengers aboard flight 1348 ended up landing in Austin and sitting on a tarmac there for almost nine hours before they were allowed to deplane because no gate was ready. But according to the BTS records, flight 1348 was simply "diverted." "It's like our flight didn't even exist," says Kate Hanni, a passenger onboard flight 1348, which she says had overflowing toilets...