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...Ready for Anything Danish troops were surprised to receive a supply shipment containing snow shovels, salt to de-ice roads, and lawn mowers. The nearly 400 soldiers are stationed near the southern desert town of Qurna, where temperatures have reached 50?C. A military spokesman said the equipment was part of a standard prepacked shipment...
...Castello di Borghese Vineyard & Winery, formerly owned by the pioneering Hargraves, also is host to an array of events, including live opera and art exhibitions. Located on Sound Avenue, the vineyard can be spotted from a distance by the stacks of wine barrels on the lawn. The barrels often have announcements posted on them, a tradition started by the Hargraves and continued by the Borgheses...
...annual event, with more than 20 intrusions in the past two decades. Here's a look at the most memorable breaches. June 1981 Three German tourists climb over the walls and camp overnight on the grounds of Buckingham Palace, believing it to be Hyde Park. After breakfast on the lawn, they are finally apprehended when they ask a gardener for the exit. Police announce a security review, but add, reassuringly, that the campers would have been discovered earlier if they hadn't stayed so close to the wall. July 1982 Michael Fagan breaks into the Queen's bedroom at Buckingham...
There are sunbathers and readers and yoga-doers basking on the lawn of City Hall, the only good green space on Mass. Ave. for quite a stretch. There are people speaking Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, new immigrants and old, homeless and fortune-seekers, yuppies and yippies...
...Occasionally, reality does intrude into this TV-inspired and narcotics-fueled never-never-land of Karachi's pampered ?lite. After Islamic terrorists exploded a car bomb outside the U.S. consulate last year, members strolling on the flower-banked lawn at the colonial-era Sind Club nearby found the severed arm of a woman, with lacquered fingernails and bangles, which had been blown over the wall. The woman was one of the 12 fatalities, and 43 others were wounded in the consulate attack. Club president, Hussain Haroon, whose family owns the English-language Dawn newspaper and has been prominent in Karachi...