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Gardens may be green?but they're not always eco-friendly. American lawns and gardens drink up H2O at alarming rates, especially in the dry West, where more than 50% of residential water is used for landscaping. Chemical fertilizers and pesticides can damage the land as well. But xeriscaping (pronounced zeer-i-skay-ping), a term that means "dry landscaping," is becoming increasingly popular. "We're getting the message that homeowners aren't interested in environmentally irresponsible things," says Joel Lerner, founder of Maryland-based landscaping firm Environmental Design. Here's how you can have a garden that's green?...
...should not forget that the collapse of Prime Minister Romano Prodi's center-left government in January was triggered in the land of the Camorra. Shortly before the fall of his government, the latest in a string of shutdowns of Campania's trash collection - a business in which the Mob has long had its fingers - left tons of rubbish piled up on Naples' streets for weeks on end. Prodi had allowed the governor of Campania to stay afloat despite his failure to manage the trash emergency. The Prime Minister didn't see the situation in Naples for what it really...
...France and the U.S. both have a military presence in the region to combat terror. The French official says Paris and Washington, actively working with allied north African governments, have studied air and land strikes capable of eliminating AQIM in the area. So far, the source says, they have decided that the group's nuisance does not merit massive use of force...
...sure the remedy isn't worse than the disease," says another French counterterror official, noting the relatively small number of kidnapping cases to date. "The reality is, a Western military strike on a Muslim nation today would inflame Muslim populations across the planet, turn the entire area into a land of jihad for extremists everywhere, and send scores of European youths into extremism...
...called the dead zone. Agricultural fertilizer byproducts like nitrogen are running off farms and into the Mississippi River, which then spills out into the Gulf of Mexico. Those chemicals help feed crops on land, but as they build up in the still, warm waters of the Gulf, they in turn feed excess growth of algae. When algae dies and decomposes, the process sucks much of the oxygen out of the water. A sea without oxygen is little different from the surface of the moon - nothing can live there. Fish and other sea life flee, or suffocate. That's the Gulf...