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...your feathered friends, this backyard fountain needs neither wires nor transformers; it's powered by the sun. Copper with an 18-in. bowl; $179 from Gardener's Supply...
...difference now is that Southerners are finally dominating the only American music that didn't originate in their backyard. And that's a reason to get crunk. By Desa Philadelphia
Deng also supported Mao's Great Leap Forward in 1958, which called for enforced nationwide collectivism on the farms and a buildup of steel production in backyard furnaces. The campaign proved disastrous, producing a series of prolonged famines that starved some 27 million people during the years 1958 to 1962. By 1961 Deng and President Liu Shaoqi had realized the enormity of the miscalculation and set about correcting it. At a tense party plenum that Mao did not attend (so that Liu, Deng and others could gainleader ship experience prior to the Chairman's death), they announced measures reinstating private...
...American backyard is a battleground for the television industry. The subject of dispute: 1.5 million satellite dish antennas. These contraptions enable their owners to pick up free the 100-odd TV signals that fly through the sky. This is irksome to programmers transmitting shows to local cable operators via satellite. The industry estimates that it loses up to $700 million a year to commercial owners of dishes and forfeits additional income to private dish owners...
...smarter toys. They worked together once before, in 1974, when Bushnell hired Wozniak, then 23, to design a video game called Breakout, which became an early hit. They kept in touch over the years and started talking about the current partnership a month ago at a barbecue in the backyard of Bushnell's Woodside, Calif., home. Wozniak observed his two children, ages 1 and 3, playing with some of Axlon's robot toys and decided that his old friend was on to something. Recalls Bushnell: "I think we were able to light each other's imagination a little...