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...Americans used to target golf on manicured greens, this links-style course is a different sport--more blustery St. Andrews than pristine Augusta. It's also a superintendent's dream: tough fescue grass makes up 94% of this Pacific Northwest terrain, requiring half the water and half the work of traditional courses. "I can't get over how few pesticides and fertilizers we need," says David Wienecke, Chambers Bay course superintendent. "We have the same standard of quality for 30% to 40% less cost...
...husband and two children. I have a refrigerator full of half-empty Coke bottles and shop twice a month, usually for more Coke. Shinobu-san has much to teach me in the art of Japanese homemaking, which is why I've come to her tidy home in northwest Tokyo, where she's begun offering cooking lessons for curious tourists...
County Mayo is a place of stubbornness and wild beauty. Raw Atlantic weather sweeps in across the tangle of estuaries and peninsulas that form Broadhaven Bay on Ireland's northwest coast, buffeting the yellow gorse bushes and pink rhododendrons that cling stoutly to the vast green bog stepped and striped black by centuries of cutting for household fuel. Like most of the Gaelic-speaking locals in Rossport, Willie Corduff has lived all his life here, cutting turf and seaweed, raising a few animals and getting by on frugality...
...LINGUISTICS 8,000 Age, in years, of rock carvings in northwest China that archaeologists say might be early Chinese characters, a finding that would more than double the estimated age of written Chinese's origins 3,000 B.C. Estimated era that Sumerians in southern Mesopotamia (in modern-day Iraq) are believed to have developed cuneiform, the world's earliest known written language...
...gang problem, a scarier threat emerged: mass killings like the April 1999 massacre at Columbine High School near Littleton, Colo. Some teachers and principals began to see potential threats behind all kinds of behavior, provoking free-speech disputes that often landed in court. In 2000 a teacher at Northwest School in Leominster, Mass., kicked Michael Demers, 15, out of class for talking. Another teacher asked Demers how he felt about the ejection, and Demers drew two pictures: one of explosives surrounding the school and another of a gun pointed at the superintendent's head. The principal did nothing until...