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...true. The L.A. police chief has confirmed that it will be enforced. If it isn't, the real losers will be the thousands of people who are sensitive to dust and who suffer from respiratory and heart diseases. And the winners will not be gardeners, as you said, or lawn-care workers; the winner will be the company that makes a blower that complies with city noise standards. JACK ALLEN Zero Air Pollution Los Angeles...
Then I drive home, where I make more entries still. In the mail are new pictures of the children; I share a cup of hot chocolate with the dog; the wind kicks up; the fat pine on the front lawn trembles its skirts in the late afternoon; shadows smudge the hedges; day hook-slides into night. I think of high school baseball, then basketball. The orange moon hangs so low it looks as if it is about to fall to earth and bounce...
...home. This holiday season promises a collection of wired gadgets that add information-age efficiency to the most mundane domestic tasks. What's triggered the revolution? A generation of microprocessors small and brainy enough to bring PC power to the dumbest of appliances. Everything from computerized breadmakers to automated lawn mowers suggests that good housekeeping now requires at least two AA batteries (or a very long cord). Result: a simpler, smarter 21st century home. On the following pages, you'll find a TIME survey of the essential accoutrements for this Jetsons life-style...
...most of the country, admittedly, this isn't exactly prime time for thinking about lawn and garden care. With temperatures from Hartford, Conn., to Boise, Idaho, averaging around the freezing mark in the month of December, most sane people--carolers notwithstanding--stay indoors as much as possible. But spring springs eternal, and so do fond thoughts of cookouts, lawn mowing and garden planting...
...more laden with features than its predecessors. While the job of a landscape architect used to take a T square, years of training and a very fertile imagination, now anyone with the right software and a PC can design six or seven backyards in an afternoon. Mowing the lawn is not generally regarded as a fun chore, but souping up your mower with electronic cruise control and power steering makes it a vastly more enjoyable experience. True, the tractor costs almost as much as a compact car, but if El Nino and global warming are what they're cracked...