Word: backyarders
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Robyn started us off slowly. She got us a border collie, Hugo, when our son was about 6. She knew that would appeal to me because the border collie is the smartest species on the planet. Hugo could 1) play outfield in our backyard baseball games, 2) do flawless front-door sentry duty, and 3) play psychic weatherman, announcing with a wail every coming thunderstorm...
...Herbfarm in Woodinville, Wash., each day's menu is set only hours before the meal in order to take advantage of the day's harvest from the restaurant's 6,000-sq.-ft. garden. Chef Benjamin Ford maintains an organic garden in his backyard for his Beverly Hills, Calif., restaurant Chadwick, which is named for legendary gardener Alan Chadwick, the man who is credited with bringing biodynamic organic gardening...
...Koji Morimoto, who worked on the seminal Akira?signed on immediately. The brothers wrote four of the nine shorts themselves; the rest were penned by the directors under Wachowski supervision. "The Animatrix was like being invited to the brothers' house," says Watanabe. "We got to play in their huge backyard?but we had to remain within the yard...
...Enel team is confident from the geological findings that they are about to hit pay dirt. The other key advances are aimed above ground. Local opposition to geothermal projects in Tuscany is growing because the tourism industry is booming, and property owners have begun to organize not-in-my-backyard campaigns to prevent anything spoiling the idyllic landscape. And rising real estate prices crimp on Enel's effort to expand, too. This "clean" energy source, in truth, falls short of immaculate. The old, large cooling towers, which look like nuclear power plants, spoil the view for kilometers around...
Noonan’s dream is deferred four hours due to overcast skies. He waits in the backyard of the skydiving center, looking wistfully at the landing strip he hopes to hit on his way down. Finally, the skies clear and up Noonan goes in a six-person jet, sporting a full bodysuit, a Harvard T-shirt and an extra pair of shorts to ward off the possibility of chafed legs...