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...amount of water it takes to maintain them. That's why the Southern Nevada Water Authority has started offering homeowners money--40[cents] per sq. ft., with a $1,000 maximum--to rip up all or part of their lawn and replace it with less water-dependent indigenous flora...
That's exactly what Flora Zeman, 71, has been able to do. After she moved to Tamarac, Fla., a friend's husband got Parkinson's disease. "They had no coverage, and she had to give up her house," says Zeman, who bought a lifetime policy just before she turned 65. As a result of diabetes, she now uses a wheelchair. Her LTC policy pays for a home health aide for about nine hours...
...link to state-sponsored terrorism," said Aphrodite Tsairis, whose 20-year-old daughter Alexia was killed on Flight 103. Many families had stopped daring to hope for a conviction, and it came as the culmination of a draining struggle against complacency and despair. When Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora was on the Pan Am flight, heard the verdict, he fainted in the court gallery. But the ruling also underlined another challenge: to start from this now legally established link and go up the chain to the real instigators. President George W. Bush said "the United States government will continue...
...photographs, the acclaimed Dutch naturalist turns the flora and fauna of Borneo, Madagascar and the Amazon basin into objets d'art. Not a human is in sight, though Lanting's artistry and perseverance are hard to miss in these kingdoms where he was the intruder and adversary. As he notes, "I have seen leaf-cutter ants eat my tent, fungi grow in my lenses, and larvae emerge from the flesh of my leg." This reasonably priced volume is ideal for the bright child who needs to know there's a world beyond PlayStation2--a world of drama, danger and grandeur...
...previous argument that global warming did not exist by his own well-documented climate model. Determining the effects of global warming, however, falls in the realm of ecologists who almost all agree that climate change at this unprecedented rate in recent history will have negative effects on our flora and fauna. As a statement signed by 2,500 economists--among them eight Nobel prize laureates--suggests, the economic community at large also believes that climate change will have negative effects on our economy. Although the summary of the IPCC assessment itself acknowledged the need for further research...