Word: mowers
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...noise is the least of it. It turns out that America's 89 million small garden engines are fouling the very land they tend. Gas-guzzling lawn mowers, leaf blowers, weed cutters and the like produce 5% of U.S. air pollution overall, and a good deal more in many metropolitan areas. A dirty, inefficient 3.5-hp. gas mower emits the same amount of hydrocarbons in one hour as does a new car driven 340 miles. A chain saw operated for two hours produces hydrocarbons equivalent to those emitted by a new car driven 3,000 miles. Furthermore, the Environmental Protection...
...roots rebellion -- and it has. Across the nation from Greenwich, Connecticut, to Palo Alto, California, environmentalists and their allies are taking aim at the noisy machines that rule the neighborhood from May to October. In Takoma Park, Maryland, for instance, free-lance writer Mike Tidwell founded Citizens Against Lawn Mower Madness, a group seeking to limit use of gas mowers in the town. Says Tidwell: "I'm committed to spreading the gospel of power-mower reform...
...first-year dorms were scheduled for the overhauls, which began in the summer of 1992. Lionel, the exterior of Massachusetts, Mower and Weld Halls went under the hammer at the end of May. But while all needed renovation, one dorm was more needy than the others--Weld, which was gutted and refitted...
...Harvard, Gore lived in Dunster House and Mower Hall. Oscar-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones '69 was one of his roommates...
Gore, 46, lived in Mower Hall and Dunster Houseas an undergraduate concentrating in government.He wrote his honors thesis on the impacttelevision on politics...