Word: tractorized
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...clan 'ndrangheta, but Provenzano remains untouchable. Authorities are still upbeat, though. When top Mob lieutenant and Provenzano associate Antonino Giuffré was captured two years ago and turned state's witness, a window was cracked open that provided a rare glimpse of how the man known as the Tractor - for his skill in mowing people down - runs a sprawling criminal organization while eluding capture. With the new scraps of knowledge, investigators are better able to "identify with him," as one put it, to track him down. "Capturing him would be an immense blow, striking at his image of invincibility...
...could we have known? We are busy here, and he obviously wouldn't walk in with an identity card with his name on it." Magistrate Prestipino knows that silence is the biggest obstacle to nabbing Provenzano. He also knows that his work won't end, even with the Tractor behind bars: "Cosa Nostra will live on even after Provenzano is gone. But it is intolerable for the state that he is still walking free...
...prejudice is hard to undo, but it's a shame Beatty's slide show did not mention that in the U.S., it's almost always Sikhs who wear turbans, not Muslims. Last year a Sikh truck driver who was wearing a turban was shot twice while standing near his tractor trailer in Phoenix, Ariz. He survived the attack, which police are investigating as a hate crime...
...luxury mower if you want to be a backyard baron. Home-owners are dumping their old, bone-rattling lawn-and-garden cutters and trading up to fancy models with brawny engines, lumbar-supporting seats and the now obligatory beverage caddy. "A lot of people buy a large lawn tractor and think they're going to till the soil and plant a big garden, but many never do," says a senior executive for a major mowermaker. "They use it to cut grass. Buying these minitractors--it's a status symbol...
...were wound up. I was getting aggravated, so I decided to cut the grass." Not everyone, however, is enamored with his Deere. At a recent homeowners' association meeting, a neighbor asked if McCall might recuse himself from a Lawn of the Month contest, owing to the unfair edge his tractor gives him. McCall says he doesn't intend to back down...