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Mike McCall tends just a small garden on his quarter-acre plot outside Tampa, Fla. But he owns the Hummer of all yard machines, what he calls a lawn mower on steroids. Cradled in the plush, high-backed seat of his John Deere X595, McCall, 34, manicures his lawn in a quick 20 minutes, smoking a cigar while he cuts the grass--thanks to an automatic transmission, cruise control and power steering that makes one-handed driving a snap. He can plug a CD player into the 12-volt outlet and sip a beverage from the cup holder. There...
...years ago, it was the $5,000 barbecue grill. These days it takes a luxury mower if you want to be a backyard baron. Home-owners are dumping their old, bone-rattling lawn-and-garden cutters and trading up to fancy models with brawny engines, lumbar-supporting seats and the now obligatory beverage caddy. "A lot of people buy a large lawn tractor and think they're going to till the soil and plant a big garden, but many never do," says a senior executive for a major mowermaker. "They use it to cut grass. Buying these minitractors...
...Your protest consisted of a lone tent with some books inside on the lawn outside the science center. Why the non-verbal demonstration...
...strong scents of falafel, schwarma and hummus wafted across the lawn outside the Science Center yesterday as Hillel and Harvard Students for Israel commemorated the 56th anniversary of Israel’s independence in the second annual IsraelFest...
...from counterterrorism work and toward the traditional pursuit of such crimes as Mob activity, kidnapping and white-collar offenses. Intelligence work? That was the last thing an up-and-coming agent wanted to do. "Traditional agents who weren't good on the street were put into intelligence," said Jack Lawn, a veteran FBI agent who later ran the Drug Enforcement Administration. "There was no measure of success on that side. Convictions, fines, savings and recoveries were the things that [J. Edgar] Hoover pounded into us as important...