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...look beyond the lawn mower and there are signs of abundance that even the most jaded urbanite can decipher. The garden hoses hang limply on the wall, the rose bushes don't need constant coddling, the basil plant is big as a bush, and the potted fern is threatening to block the path to the front door. Everything is green, not gold this summer, except for the bag of plump, ripe tomatoes delivered by a neighor. Tomato vines love the rain. "It may well be a tomato year - a happy thought," writes Austin organic farmer Carol Ann Sayles from Boggy...
...wish, when you buy a plane ticket, they will figure out how much carbon your trip will be adding to the atmosphere and charge you for it. (For Boston to Los Angeles, about 3,000 miles, it comes to around $9.) The money goes to nonprofit groups that either plant trees to absorb the carbon or produce an equal amount of energy in an eco-friendly way (using windmills and such). You are still increasing the carbon in the air, but someone else, thanks to you, is reducing it by an equal amount. The net effect: no additional carbon...
...streets can defeat devices meant to locate bombs in relatively uncluttered locales. A discarded refrigerator on the curb could be packed with explosives. Every parked car is potentially a vehicle-borne IED (military jargon for a car bomb). Built-up areas also offer hiding places for those who plant the explosives and set them off. Abdallah says he has been asked to make trigger devices that work from as close as 75 feet away...
...young, cut the grass with a pair of scissors, while his brother slept on a hospital trolley bed, and the others all slept on the floor. His father got up at 7 a.m. and dressed for work even after he had been laid off by the local Vauxhall car plant. As for Saf, we meet him wearing pajamas under his trousers so he doesn't look so skinny, and planning a rock group called Yasser Arafat and the Ayatollahs of Love. The overwhelming impression is of a dark-skinned Woody Allen hoping to remake himself as a bruiser from...
...board addresses energy worker issues around the country - from the Savannah River nuclear weapons plant to the workers who handled plutonium at a weapons plant in Paducah, Kentucky - without, its chairman told TIME, any pressure at all to consider impact upon the federal treasury. "I don't think any of us are concerned with that," Ziemer says. "I don't even know how much money is available. We were never told to try to limit the numbers." He added, "There's a lot of tension in what I'd call the emotional aspects. But why didn't Congress fix this...