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Other states, including New Mexico, California and Arizona, have instituted similar financial-incentive plans to save water. The National Wildlife Federation offers an official backyard wildlife habitat seal to those who curtail their lawns in favor of native plants that feed and shelter indigenous wildlife and require less pesticide and water. Applications have increased nearly 20% in the past three years. "Lawns can serve as a play space for children or a psychological barrier between homeowners and the street," says N.W.F. spokeswoman Mary Burnette, "but many people have more lawn than is good for the environment...
...traditionalists are a noticeably happier bunch these days. Through May, runs per game were down from 10.62 last season to 9.57 this season. Most of the credit is being given to better enforcement of the strike zone, but after years of looking like deer caught in Ted Nugent's backyard, pitchers are displaying a potent new weapon. "I call it the pitch of the new millennium," says ESPN baseball analyst Harold Reynolds, a former All-Star second baseman. The increasingly popular pitch is just a modified fast ball, but by putting pressure on the inside half of the ball, right...
...summers later, the two Massachusetts natives are now getting married, and Dana still has the knee scar of their first meeting. The wedding will be in Dana's hometown on Cape Cod on June 9 with a church ceremony and backyard reception at Dana's home. They do not have honeymoon plans yet, because Dana will be leaving town the morning after the wedding to attend a music festival in New Mexico for the summer...
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Nearly every day VU2MKP, Kohli's ham radio name, converses with the world - with Suleiman in Saudi Arabia, Xavier in Germany, Hal from Johannesburg. He and Charlie from Hong Kong talk about growing bananas in the backyard. With Chandru, who also lives in Koramangala, he discusses the latest antenna technology. A program running on his laptop helps him track which of 20 radio satellites are available at any given moment. Details about his radio friends show up through an automatic program as soon as he feeds their code in with his stick...