Word: backyarders
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...days when professionals were considered to have a monopoly on wisdom are ending, thank God. And Bono's advocacy is an important part of that change. "He understands," says Trevor Neilson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, "that the battle for development is going to be won at the backyard barbecue, not at the Council on Foreign Relations." Fire up the grill...
...across America, parents are tossing summer-camp applications into trash cans. "Last year I spent $2,000 to send my 6-year-old to day camp, and she couldn't bring a Popsicle into the pool area," says Pauline Izrailov of West Bloomfield, Mich. "This year I got a backyard wading pool for $11.95. My kids can splash in it, pee in it, eat cheeseburgers in it. They'll love...
DIED. NIKOLAY SOLTYS, 28, Ukrainian immigrant jailed for the alleged murder of his pregnant wife, son and four other family members; a suicide by hanging; in his cell in Sacramento, Calif. Soltys was caught hiding in the backyard of his mother's home after a 10-day manhunt last August...
...complaining about Americans in "unilateralist overdrive," the Europeans protest, with some justification, that the U.S. prefers peacemaking to peacekeeping. U.S. bombs and cruise missiles helped "pacify" the Balkans, but it is the Europeans who have the task of making sure the peace endures. Fair enough in Europe's backyard, but not in Afghanistan - where Washington seems intent on bowing out of the process of "stabilizing" the country, the better to train its sites on the next target, Iraq...
...perhaps Coach Murphy is mulling a career change. Just think of the possibilities open to him, some right in our own backyard...