Word: backyarders
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...current U.N. proposal, backed by the U.S. and the E.U., would recognize Kosovo as a state but put it under E.U. supervision to safeguard Serbs and other minorities. But Russian officials have said that the move would encourage separatist movements in other parts of the world, including their own backyard...
...emerge from an agreement between Serbia and the Kosovar Albanians of the province. Said he: "Any other decision cannot make it through the Security Council." Russia is reportedly concerned, among other things, that the move would encourage separatist movements in other parts of the world, including its own backyard...
...haven’t I taken advantage of my time here? Why am I merely holing up at the house with my 300 book-long summer reading list and enough food to feed a small country? It should be a minor guilt to combat: lazy Saturday mornings in the backyard hammock with a lime popsicle, a tattered Woolf, and a thick Dostoevsky hardly constitute a squandered summer...
...signs. Neighbor kids gathered around a big live oak to watch a large rat snake hanging in the branches - rat snakes are a "good thing," one neighbor, a native Texan, assures everyone as the grownups shudder. Mosquitoes don't wait for dusk to come out and refilling the backyard bird feeder is like a trek in the Amazonian jungle, no need this year to keep the birdbath filled...
That's homeownership in a nutshell: the dream of wealth, self-reinvention and security, combined with the faintest fear that something in your backyard may just come back to bite you. Welcome home, America...