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...bittersweet nightshade, heal-all, true forget-me-not, blue vervain, spring larkspur, spiderwort, monkeyflower, dog violet, common butterwort, spurred butterfly, crown vetch, henbit, spotted Joe-Pye weed, gray beardtongue, spreading dogbane, live forever, steeplebush, crazyweed, woolly locoweed, hairy vetch, lady's thumb, common speedwell, field milkwort, Lyon's turtlehead, ragged robin, calypso, common burdock, spotted knapweed, hairy willow herb, purple saxifrage, red baneberry, slender glasswort, toadshade, climbing bittersweet, birdsfoot trefoil, moth mullein, smooth false foxglove, showy rattlebox, prince's plume, agrimony, squawroot, mouse-ear hawkweed, rattlesnake weed, coltsfoot, tickseed sunflower, Jerusalem artichoke, sneezeweed, swollen bladderwort, clammy ground cherry, purslane, muskflower...
...Emerson said, "I am a god in nature, I am a weed by the wall." Right on both counts. The weed and the god are much the same thing...
...Republican measure, sponsored by Bill Frist, Democrat John Breaux and Independent Jim Jeffords (and backed by the White House) sets up an extensive appeals process to weed out frivolous lawsuits. It also limits suits to the federal system and puts a $500,000 cap on damages. Republicans argue the Democrats' bill would leave health plans open to catastrophic legal costs and raise the price of insurance premiums, forcing employers to drop coverage. In the end, the White House argues, the unlimited-damages approach could leave millions of Americans without insurance. (Democrats contend their plan would cost just 37 cents...
...Republican plan, sponsored by Bill Frist, Democrat John Breaux and Independent Jim Jeffords (and backed by the White House) sets up an extensive appeals process to weed out frivolous lawsuits. It also limits suits to the federal system and puts a $500,000 cap on damages. Republicans argue the Democrats? bill would leave health plans open to catastrophic legal costs and raise the price of insurance premiums, forcing employers to drop coverage. In the end, the White House argues, the unlimited-damages approach could leave millions of Americans without insurance. (Democrats contend their plan would cost just 37 cents...
...damage they inflict on local species and crops, is growing apace with the doubling in U.S. foreign trade over the past decade. In the U.S., they cause upwards of $100 billion in economic losses annually, according to Cornell researcher David Pimentel. Among recent invaders is giant salvinia, a freshwater weed infesting lakes and waterways in the South and West. The Asian long-horn beetle, pictured at right, is gnawing away at Chicago-area trees. In April, environmentalists filed a suit to force the EPA to bar oceangoing vessels from dumping their ballast water--a major source of invasive species...