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Though FX-10 shows enormous promise, it will not solve watering problems everywhere. Because part of its advantage depends on a reasonably shallow water table, even enthusiasts acknowledge that in certain locations -- on hillsides, for instance, or in parts of the desert Southwest -- the grass may require irrigation. Another limiting factor is temperature: as with other St. Augustine grasses, even a day below freezing proves deadly. Any place north of, say, Houston will not be hospitable...
Today: Variable clouds, becoming breezy, high 70 to 75. Southwest wind increasing to 15 to 25 mph. Tonight: Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers, low 55 to 60. Tomorrow: Partly sunny and warm, high around...
...method, developed in 1958, has had considerable success in Japan. Last year Kumon sent an old friend, retired auto dealer Takayoshi Sogo, to try to sell the program to American schools. So far, 196 in the South and Southwest have taken the offer. "I didn't see any reason why this system wouldn't work in America," says Sogo. "We have merely taken universal techniques and applied them to give each student the self-confidence to tackle his regular math courses...
Consumers, as usual, would get clobbered. The study, sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency and published in the science journal Nature, notes that food prices could rise because of the reduced rainfall across the Southeast and Southwest...
Rampaging floodwaters continued to wash catastrophe across the Southwest last week, the Trinity River wreaking havoc from Dallas southward while the swollen Arkansas and Red rivers pitched into homes and fields in Arkansas, where Governor Bill Clinton declared 29 counties disaster areas. At the Texas- Oklahoma border, waters rushing out of overfilled Lake Texoma ravaged a popular summer restaurant-disco-and-marina complex. By the weekend the unruly Trinity was menacing East Texas with still larger troubles. "The river's going crazy," said National Weather Service hydrologist Ernest Cathey in Fort Worth. As it inundated immense swaths of ranchland, stranding...