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Seed catalogs are also capitalizing on the urb-ag movement by offering smaller varieties of vegetables that can be grown successfully in more compact spaces. And the catalog companies are reporting that sales of vegetable seeds have soared in the past several years, outstripping those of flowers for the first time since the 1950s...
This is the kind of Woody Allen comedy Woody Allen no longer makes, the story of Z (voiced by the master himself), a timid, neurotically oppressed, sexually obsessed, glumly funny urban male who somehow stumbles his way to conditional happiness. That his urb happens to be an ant colony, his beloved (Sharon Stone) its overindulged princess and his nemesis (Gene Hackman) a fascist general mounting a coup adds a nice weird touch to the tale, as does the dark-toned computer animation. Kids may be puzzled by rebellious worker ants chanting Marxist slogans, but their parental guides may welcome...
From scattered western literature, for example, Cassidy has gleaned the definition of an Arizona tenor as a coughing tubercular. In Georgia, an Arab, pronounced Ay-rab in the northern part of the state and slurred to Urb in the south, can mean an urchin, while for some Baltimoreans, an Ay-rab is a bookie who operates out of his pocket on the street. To a Missouri youngster, Boston can be a marbles game in which the shooter need not knuckle down, but to a Pacific Northwest Indian, a Boston was any white American. And in a black ghetto like Watts...
...Physics Today, "it ran on for yards before falling over." By moving back the contact point, Jones had inadvertently increased the front wheel's torque. This twisting force normally counteracts the bike's tendency to fall over by steering it in the direction it is leaning. URB III was. in fact, even more stable than an ordinary bicycle...
Baffled, he turned for help to a computer. After analyzing many more unridable designs, he finally felt ready to build URB IV, an awkward-looking machine whose front wheel was four inches ahead of the normal position. The result was smashingly successful. Even when it was given a hard shove forward, the riderless URB IV quickly toppled. "It seems a lot of tortuous effort to produce in the end a machine of absolutely no utility whatsoever," Jones concluded, "but that sets me firmly in the mainstream of modern technology...