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...Sunbelters should not buy Astroturf just yet. Help may be on the way. Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a strain of grass so resistant to drought that in some locales, it may not need to be watered at all. The university's test patch, at a research center near Fort Lauderdale, is thick and green, even though it has received no water, except for an occasional rainfall, since March...
...Florida, where the water table typically lies no deeper than about 5 ft. Moreover, FX-10 seems to use the water it gets more efficiently than other St. Augustine varieties do. In the drought-parched university plots where more than 60% of the standard St. Augustine has died, the patch of FX-10 has expanded in size...
Frantic family members and blinking squad-car lights surrounded Antonio Ramirez. Knocked down by a passing pickup truck, the six-year-old boy screamed in pain as he lay on a curbside patch of grass in a south Los Angeles County barrio. For paramedics Edwin St. Andrew, 27, and Walter Tayenaka, 32, summoned to an "unknown T.C." (traffic collision), the moment was routine yet unnerving. The boy briefly lost consciousness and appeared to have broken bones. They had to move him quickly to a hospital. "You never know about kids," explained St. Andrew. "They seem to be doing well...
That diversity can make for great theater, but it is a political disaster for a nation that lacks any clear consensus. For the past eight weeks, Israel has been effectively without a government as first Labor and then Likud attempted to patch together a ruling majority. Both parties' shameless display of vote buying has reached a new low, discrediting Israeli-style democracy at home and abroad. In his Independence Day address last week, President Chaim Herzog warned that the current "political machinations make an absolute mockery of the principles of democracy." Herzog was later handed petitions signed...
Iran eager to patch things up with the Great Satan? Syria, the pre-eminent Soviet client state in the Middle East, avid for U.S. approval? Those developments sound as unlikely as . . . well, as the release of an American hostage by Lebanese kidnapers who apparently got nothing whatsoever in return from Washington. But Robert Polhill, 55, a professor at Beirut University College who had been abducted and held for three years and three months, was in fact turned loose on the streets of Beirut at the start of last week. His freedom did result from a combination of arm twisting...