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Every night for a few months this spring, in the backyard of 36 Irving St., Where I met Mark for the second time, as a roommate, you would hear the pop of a Sterno can and soon coal light would be flickering against the back windows. Occasionally there would be the spiralling wails of Arabic music. Inside, a tea kettle would be boiling mark was preparing to smoke...
...brought back strong memories of his explorations of Cairo. It was easy to sit with him in the back-yard, stirring tea, handing back and forth the lay, basking in a stream of Arabic names and stories. Every night until the tobacco ran out, Mark would be in the backyard, arranging glowing embers with the masha' (a pair of small brass tongs), cupping his hands and blowing softly on the coals...
...have cows grazing in my backyard. I don't bail hay for weekend fun. My friends who rib me interminably with Idaho--sorry, Iowa--humor are really Midwest-ignorant and patronizing...
Although self-preservation motivates these backyard ecologists, they often take their cause well beyond the backyard, in many cases joining the loose environmental coalitions that have become major lobbying forces in state capitals. When her second son was born with a breathing disorder, Marylee Orr roused her Baton Rouge neighborhood and founded Mothers Against Air Pollution to stop a nearby incinerator from releasing toxic polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. Now the 38-year-old housewife heads the Louisiana Environmental Action Network, an umbrella for about 50 local environmental hell raisers, which lobbied successfully last year for the passage of the state...
...MEIN BACKYARD. Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Atwood heard a common complaint recently. A governor of a remote state flew to Washington to head off possible military-base closings that would affect his local economy. So what else is new? The governor was Carl-Ludwig Wagner, and the state was Rhineland-Palatinate in West Germany...