Word: backyarders
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...black bears that wander into the backyard can be pretty exciting. But visitors to the eminently cozy Mount Juneau Inn in Juneau, Alaska, tend to save their best reviews for Leo, the bed-and-breakfast's low-key resident MacKenzie River husky. "He's the world's greatest dog," raves New Jerseyite Christine de Vries...
...though the neighbors in White Rock, N.M., just down the road from Los Alamos, put out flags last Wednesday and welcomed Lee home with a big backyard party on Barcelona Avenue, the man at the center of the wreckage still has a lot of explaining to do. Lee won back his freedom only after pleading guilty to a single felony count of mishandling national-defense information, which means he downloaded the equivalent of 400,000 pages of classified data about the U.S. nuclear-weapons program onto an unsecured computer system and then transferred them to high-volume cassettes...
...pair) comes with an FM radio, earphones and fold-down antenna, but we found its reception to be among the worst of the bunch. The colorful Radio Shack Two-Way Personal Radios are currently on sale at $50 a pair but have only two channels and are best for backyard fun or neighborhood parks...
That fight was on Heinecke's turf. Because New York State law governs his contract with Tricon, he will have to win his next fight in his opponent's backyard. If Heinecke wins, he will take whatever damages-award money he gets and rebrand his stores into another pizza franchise. Although Tricon is building new Pizza Huts, Heinecke will still be the big cheese in the local pizza market because his stores are already in the best locations...
...which sounds perfectly unreasonable to Hamburg resident Ethel Martin, 88, shaking her head as she watched Eriksen and his assistant Mike Madonia remove the 140-lb. sow they had trapped in her backyard with the shirtful of doughnuts. "I've lived here 62 years, never seen bears this much. One ripped off a window screen trying to get in. I was hospitalized with frayed nerves the last time it happened," says the widow...