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...Richards, the Ohio farmer turned chief of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, a branch of the Agriculture Department. "It is a cultural revolution." In the past year scs has named this new kind of farming "residue management," and its wide embrace includes techniques labeled no-till, ridge-till and mulch-till...
...leased. IKEA expects to rent 30,000 this year. As a bonus this year, customers at most stores will get a coupon for a fir sapling they can pick up for planting in the spring. Once the used Christmas trees are returned to the store, they are ground into mulch, which customers can use in their gardens or leave for others. Better hurry, though: the sale started last week, and trees are expected to sell out by this coming weekend...
...since there can be no easy (or convincing) explanation of how a 1940s murder mystery finally gets resolved, with a little help from reincarnation, in the '90s. Yet despite all that boring talk, DEAD AGAIN is a hit, the late-blooming rose of a movie summer that was mostly mulch. How come? Well, as a director, Kenneth Branagh is all distracting bustle, briskly shooing us past his picture's many dubious moments. As an actor he gives a flashy performance -- two accents, neither of which is native to him -- in a dual role. And he had the good sense...
...mason jars, sewing kits, to extend the life of life's necessities; and any $5 present that looked as if it cost $25. At the IKEA store in Elizabeth, N.J., shoppers could lease a Christmas tree for $20 and get $10 back if they returned it for recycling into mulch...
...that its embassy under construction in Moscow was riddled with bugging devices, a study commissioned by the State Department recommended razing the $22 million building. Demolition cost: $160 million. No decision has been announced. But U.S. diplomats concede that the shrubbery surrounding the building has a new kind of mulch: shredded documents. That is one way to save taxpayer dollars -- and thwart bugs...