Word: lawns
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...weeks after 9/11, TV broadcasters were beacons for edgy viewers. Few were more unflappable than former ABC News chief national-security correspondent John McWethy. After a plane crashed into the Pentagon, the Emmy-winning McWethy, then in the building, reported from a nearby lawn. Known for his fairness, wit, trove of sources and willingness to tell editors they were wrong, he counted among his admirers the most senior members of ABC and the Defense Department. McWethy, recently retired, died after sliding chest-first into a tree while skiing...
...then he rejected it; he backed same sex marriage and then he opposed it. Yet, on the issue of immigration, he has not only been inconsistent, but revealed himself to be a hypocrite—and not just because he hired migrants without work permits to mow his lawn...
...perhaps future rival, whose group at the NIH is also working on creating synthetic genes, echoes that doubt. "Suppose I have a pile of dirt in my backyard and I want to move it," he says. "I could spend months building the components, but I already have a lawn tractor, so what I need to do is add a front loader. Why not take the shortest path...
Adding a new wing to a neoclassical museum, Holl devised a spectacular update on classicism: an irregular series of volumes that cascade down the museum's lawn and glow from within. The effect against the nighttime sky is nothing short of magical...
...hard times familiar to blue-collar communities across the U.S. But Grays Harbor is showing new color, thanks in part to the Seattle biofuel company Imperium Renewables, which just opened the nation's largest biodiesel plant there. The four-month-old refinery positively gleams (and smells vaguely like lawn clippings because of the vegetable oil used to make the biodiesel). As he scales a 500,000-gallon (1.9 million L) holding tank, plant manager Sid Watts can't conceal his pride. He points to the dock, where ships bring in vegetable oil from places like Indonesia and Malaysia...