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Ehud Olmert has some new neighbors. In a rose garden across from the Israeli Prime Minister's Jerusalem office, a squad of angry army reservists and their families have pitched a cluster of igloo tents, and it looks as if they will be staying for a while. They've connected a refrigerator and a TV set to the electricity main, and, says an infantry reservist, they will camp out in Olmert's rose garden until "this loser, the Prime Minister, goes home...
...France with orders Vignette StoryServer 5.0 Tue Jul 14 08:50:22 2009 to shoot ... frogs. But not just any amphibians. They're after Rana catesbeiana - the North American bullfrog - introduced to France in 1968 by a French aviator who liked the idea of the critters croaking in his garden. They're now an ecological menace. Weighing up to a kilo, these voracious predators gorge on crustaceans, fish, other frogs, salamanders and even the occasional bird. "It's capable of attacking anything it can swallow," says Tony Dejean, the naturalist at Périgord-Limousin leading the operation. Worse...
...Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School, tucked into the city's residential Garden District, the hallways smelled of fresh paint, and new books were on display on the library shelves. In fact, everything was new in the school, principal Mary Hynes-Smith told students and parents assembled on the playground outside...
...affects the shuttle serving the Harvard Business School, Soldiers Field Park, and the Allston campus. This shuttle route will now terminate at the end of John F. Kennedy Street—near Citizens Bank—instead of at Johnston Gate. The upcoming changes to the Johnston Gate and Garden Street stops are part of the ongoing Harvard Square Improvement Project, a multimillion dollar effort by the City of Cambridge and the University to improve Harvard Square and make it more pedestrian-friendly. The 18-month campaign, begun in April 2005, is being funded by a $5.5 million contribution from...
...pepper. The wine itself tasted of subtle herbs with full tannins. What was most interesting was how it opened up with oxidation and food. I dug into my steak au poivre and swished the wine around the glass, and all of a sudden a bouquet of hitherto-absent garden flowers opened in my glass, demanding the attention of my entire palate...