Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Backyard conservation...
...Fire Station 8 and a bank in a San Francisco warehouse area, a green grove of trees and shrubs attracts finches, hawks, hummingbirds and others seldom seen in the city's industrial neighborhood. Ten trees and a variety of bushes growing on a 30-ft. by 40-ft. backyard in Brooklyn have attracted 105 varieties of birds, including crow, red-bellied woodpecker and green heron...
...jabbering about a seven-year career of murder, of picking up boys and young men, forcing them to perform sexual acts and then strangling them. Police discovered 26 bodies in a 40-ft. crawl space beneath his house, one body under his dining room and two buried in his backyard. Four more bodies, including Piest's, were dumped in the Des Plaines River...
...path that neighborhood youngsters had beaten across the elderly woman's backyard was irritating enough. But when the youths began picking her flowers as well, the lady grabbed her gun and began plinking away. Though no one was hurt, police were called and the parents prepared to press charges. In most cities, the result would have been a court proceeding and bad tempers all around. But in Columbus the matter was turned over to an informal mediation process called the Night Prosecutor's Program. Within two weeks, after a meeting refereed by a local citizen trained in mediation...
...teach my sister and me coordination when we were young so while my sister took dance lessons I went and ran around the mats," the resident of El Cahone, Calif., said. "My mother got me diving lessons when I was nine because we had a pool in the backyard and she was afraid I'd kill myself on the board...