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...year ago, on Feb. 28, Brady became law. Its five-day waiting period allows local law-enforcement authorities time to perform the background check that is intended to weed out felons and others who are denied handguns. The law applied immediately to the 30 states that had no similar regulations on the books and prompted others to put in place computer checks that permit a yes or no answer within minutes, sparing buyers the five-day wait...
...profile this season was near perfect. After the thaw there were dry, mild days so the farmers could plant almost without interruption, most of them using the no-till method, where the seeds were drilled or chiseled into matted stubble left from the year before; this residue forms a weed-retardant layer and a sponge for moisture. The right rains came at the right time. Only in isolated corners of the country were there scorching winds or floods...
This method of picking the top team is made more horrible by the fact that there isn't a college football playoff. We have those wonderful bowl games like the Poulan Weed-Eater Independence Bowl or the John Hancock Bowl (formerly the Sun Bowl) and many others, none of which would produce a national championship game if Penn State and Nebraska remain undefeated...
...private non-profit Environmental Working Group released a study showing that traces of five commonly used agricultural weed killers are seeping through soil and streams and into the drinking water of some 14 million Americans, mostly in the Midwest. The poisons pose slightly increased cancer risks. The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged there was cause for "concern" but not "alarm...
...noise is the least of it. It turns out that America's 89 million small garden engines are fouling the very land they tend. Gas-guzzling lawn mowers, leaf blowers, weed cutters and the like produce 5% of U.S. air pollution overall, and a good deal more in many metropolitan areas. A dirty, inefficient 3.5-hp. gas mower emits the same amount of hydrocarbons in one hour as does a new car driven 340 miles. A chain saw operated for two hours produces hydrocarbons equivalent to those emitted by a new car driven 3,000 miles. Furthermore, the Environmental Protection...