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...seems that Flanders, 50, a retired concrete producer, has taken his hobby to an extreme. It began harmlessly enough when he laid a picturesque model-train track in his backyard; his wife's pretty tulips remained intact for the most part. Then he decided that the trains needed indoor storage, and he ran the track into the barn. After that he added rails over the driveway, and before long, he was digging a 4-ft.-wide strip across the yard. From there the park has kept growing and growing. "It's just, as we started building things and we kept...
That is, after all, the Balestracci way and has been for years. Their competitiveness in backyard games as children was a big reason each became a three-sport star at New Bedford High School...
Yesterday’s rally marked the former Vermont governor’s first major foray into the backyard of rival Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass. Dean and Kerry are battling for support across the border in the critical primary state of New Hampshire...
...Mars made its closest approach to Earth in 60,000 years [ASTRONOMY, Sept. 1] and I watched from my backyard, it seemed appropriate to contemplate the ancient and seemingly unstoppable need of human beings to wipe out one another. Mars, the Roman god of war, would be reassured to know that people are just as bloodthirsty as ever, accomplishing with suicide bombs and attack helicopters what was once achieved by swords and spears. The next time Mars and Earth brush past each other, almost three centuries from now, either we will have driven ourselves to extinction as a species...
...Some of the letters' authors are as young as nine. Several have been locked up for three years or more, and their writings depict an arid dystopia of razor wire, beatings, attempted suicides and surveillance cameras?hopelessly remote from the great Australian dream of a swimming pool and backyard barbecue for all. A letter from an Iraqi embodies the pathos: "I am half dead... I am ashamed to tell you I really need some warm clothes and shoes if you please. They never give me anything in this three year [sic]." A 14-year-old Syrian wrote, "I am maybe...