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MARC COHEN, A HOMEOWNER IN Woodland Hills, California, has a new annual chore. For the past three years in a row, he has refinanced his family's five- bedroom house. "My wife says, 'You must be kidding -- you're doing it again?' " says Cohen, a Merrill Lynch vice president. "It's a pain to do it, but for three weeks of aggravation, you get years of savings on the interest." For his trouble, Cohen now enjoys a 15-year mortgage fixed at 6 3/ 4%, down from the 11 1/2% adjustable-rate loan he originally took...
...Nature writer Sara Stein joined the back-to-natives movement after she noticed the disappearance of fireflies and frogs, butterflies and birds from her five-acre property in Pound Ridge, New York. To bring the critters back, she put native grasses among her perennial flowers, planted a woodland garden, resurrected an old pond and created a wildflower meadow. Author of the new book Noah's Garden, Stein decries "the vast, nearly continuous and terribly impoverished ecosystem" consisting of copycat lawns and gardens from coast to coast. "We cannot in fairness rail against those who destroy the rain forest or threaten...
Back-to-natives gardening doesn't require a lush suburban spread; tiny Edens can sprout within the biggest cities. Ten years ago, video producer Jack Schmidling began constructing a woodland, a prairie and a wetland in the small backyard of his Chicago bungalow. Now his miniature ecosystems attract a wealth of winged wildlife, from birds to butterflies. While Schmidling is delighted, some of his neighbors are not. Although the enclave is concealed behind a high fence, they have reported him to the city, charging that his secret garden is an overgrown mess...
...Rosenthals took over as North's acting co-masters in January for Co-Masters J. Woodland Hastings and Hanna M. Hastings, who are on sabbatical in Europe...
North House Master J. Woodland Hastings agreedwith Graham's assessment, saying the system "workssatisfactorily...