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Holtom was a London textile designer who had been a conscientious objector during World War II. By 1958, as Britain, the U.S. and the Soviet Union were well into the nuclear arms race, a grass-roots movement to "Ban the Bomb" was gathering force in the United Kingdom. Early that year, a fledgling disarmament group called the Direct Action Campaign (DAC) started to put together what would be Britain's first major demonstration against nuclear weapons. The plan was for a 52-mile (84 km) march from London to the town of Aldermaston, home to an A-bomb research center...
...their cheeks, most marchers wore the three-leaf clover stickers that had been handed out by embassy employees. When Bai Nian students asked their chaperone if the stickers were of Ireland's national flower, the amused teacher could only think to explain that the shamrock is "a type of grass...
...Grass takes water, so think about limiting your lawn to areas that really need it and covering heavily trafficked spots with decks or walkways. Pick a water-efficient grass...
...side. Winds of 30 miles per hour, gusting up to 40, complicated an already less-than-optimal set of conditions. “The whole course was pretty much drenched,” Mayer said. “There were puddles all over the place, and grass was all soggy.” Mayer described the medium-length course as “kind of gimmicky” with “a lot of weird holes” with bumpy greens, especially in the front nine. “The holes were designed to benefit extraordinary shots...
...their lives by providing more information about the urban environment in which they live. The Google fire service allows people to avoid accident sites by tuning electronic devices to automatic updates from the city's RSS news feed, says fire captain Dean Ford. Eventually, Nanaimo plans to equip its grass-cutting machines with GPS devices, so residents piqued by the apparent shabbiness of a particular park or grass verge can use Google to find out when last it was groomed by the city's gardening staff. And the city's cemeteries will soon be mapped to allow internet users...