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...Center collapse. In St. Paul, Minn., patrol officers will pull over and face their vehicles to the east. Motorists in Victoria, Australia, are being asked to turn on their headlights at 8:46 a.m. In Washington the Sept. 11 Quilt Project, above, will be on display on the Capitol Lawn. --By Heather Won Tesoriero
...construction, which included workers working two shifts to complete everything within the thirteen week summer, was completed just in time for move-in—although the Quad’s former grass lawn is still covered with construction vehicles and piles of dirt...
Tabloid reporters are a canny breed. After intercepting an invitation sent by JULIA ROBERTS and cameraman DANNY MODER for what was billed as a lawn party, the paparazzi hunkered down outside her Taos, N.M., ranch and awaited a wedding. Sure enough, it took place, though details proved hard to come by, as the proceedings took place under a tent behind gates on a rain-soaked night. Tabloid reporters also being a skeptical breed, the overwhelming reaction to the marriage seemed to be speculation over how long it would last. After all, her previous marriage to singer Lyle Lovett, also planned...
...fact, most snobbery is local. We're amused by the excesses of rock-star taste on MTV's Cribs, but we get genuinely snippy about our neighbor's tacky lawn ornament. Snobbery, Epstein suggests, is all about asserting our superiority, and we do that mostly with those around...
...condition finally afflicting the generation formerly known as X. In each of the book's 24 short chapters, Zevin, who is 37, confesses to having done something no self-respecting slacker would be caught dead doing: "I played golf," "I joined a health club," "I take pride in my lawn." To his disgust, he is turning into one of those people "with mortgages, health insurance [and] special sheds to store their garbage cans." There are some easy targets here--Zevin goes after such battered bull's-eyes as psychotherapy and the state of New Jersey--but he hits them unerringly...