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...Zionist idyll of honest work and camaraderie. But for those who called it home, the kibbutz had become an anachronism as rusty as the battered farm tools on display for tourists. Today, the younger generation of kibbutzniks pines for individualism. Tamara Gal-Sarai gazes out over the kibbutz lawn until her eyes settle on the blue-white shimmer of the Sea of Galilee. "The Israeli press blames us for killing their utopia," she says. "It was as if we'd destroyed a national treasure...
...Before Seung-Hui Cho's seething inner life erupted in public violence, Virginia Tech was quietly, perfectly all about this: sports and spirit. A freshly cut lawn. Maroon baseball hats and orange t-shirts. Applause and high-fives for a baseball team that doesn't always win, but always plays hard...
Blogs suck up news the way an Arizona lawn sucks up water. And it's not just blogs. The Internet has given power to everybody. My e-mail brings news that students at Andover, the prep school, are "launching a breakthrough website ... the first-ever student-run publication focused exclusively on the presidential race...
...April 20, 1999 Richard Castaldo, then 17, was eating lunch on the lawn with Rachel Scott when Harris and Klebold attacked. They killed her and shot him in the arm, chest, back and abdomen, damaging his lungs, kidney and spleen. A spinal cord injury will confine him to a wheelchair for life...
...tomb, unearthed by filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici, was sealed up again with a thick concrete slab. Now it looks like an ordinary piece of concrete flooring in the ordinary garden of an ordinary Israeli suburb, something on which you might put lawn chairs or a kid's wading pool. None of the neighbors seemed keen about the tomb's discovery; after all, they didn't want strangers running through their tidy rose gardens with torches of Heavenly Fire...