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The Story of Time
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WILLY SCHWEIZER
New Straits Times
11-12-2005
The Story of Time
Byline: WILLY SCHWEIZER
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
SOMETIMES, watchmaking terminology is confusing, especially when the
words are similar. Is a chronograph and chronometer the same thing? WILLY
SCHWEIZER says the answer to that question is BOTH yes and no.
THE word chronograph comes from the Greek. It means write the time.
Originally, that was the name of an instrument invented in 1822, which
was used for measuring the duration of events. It was a one- handed table
device with a small pen attached to the index for making two marks ...
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GARDEN QUESTIONS; Tips on stopping quack grass attack
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...My iris planting is filled with quack grass. Is there anything I can spray the planting with to kill the quack without harming the iris? A. Unfortunately anything that will kill the quack grass will also injure or kill your...
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IMPROVE IT; HG FIXIT; Use herbicides to rid yard of crab grass, quack grass.(HOME & GARDEN)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ...designed for newly seeded lawns. Quack grass is extremely vigorous...lighter green than desirable lawn grasses. Quack grass has a broad grass blade and a tough, wiry network...or patches of these perennial grasses, you might be able to successfully...
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FIXIT; Quack grass: Getting at the problem's roots.(SOURCE)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ...the best way to get rid of quack grass? A - First of all...s useless to treat quack grass with crab grass control products, for example...County Extension Service. Quack grass is extremely vigorous and taller...lighter green than desirable lawn grasses. It has a broad ...
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FIXIT; Here's how to get rid of quack grass in lawn.(VARIETY)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ...What's the best way to get rid of quack grass in the lawn? A - If you have only a few clumps or patches of these perennial grasses, you may be able to successfully dig...green plant, including desirable lawn grasses or garden plants. Glyphosate must be...
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TO DO LIST; 12 ways to commune with nature in June, July and August Summer's too short here to spend all of it sealing the driveway or fighting quack grass.(SPORTS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; 1/3 - 1. Make a day or a week of it on the Superior Hiking Trail, a spectacular path that runs for almost 200 miles overlooking Lake Superior along Minnesota's North Shore. The trail's Website - httpwww.shta.org - offers ideas for several one-day hikes and multi-day treks. Hikers can rough it at
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FIXIT; Quack or crab? And what to do?(VARIETY)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ...it is probably a perennial weed grass such as quack grass, not crab grass. Quack grass is extremely vigorous, and is taller, faster-growing and lighter green than desirable lawn grasses. Quack grass has a broad grass blade and a tough...
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The joy of grass
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press
; ...BARTLEY Kives posited that lawn grass is a "foreign green menace...for golf is necessary, we cut grass too short, and we eliminate...doing this because I hate mowing grass?" If you answer yes, consider...must be pulled, along with quack grass and lawn grass. And remember...
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The wrong grass.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: Commonweal
; ...have questioned his choice of grass. According to a University...is a warm-season, annual grass." It ordinarily grows from...alone. Individualism! But "quack grass grows from underground rhizomes." It is in quack grass that we find, using...
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Is the war on weeds really worth it? So much spent for grass, alas
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; Pigeons in the grass, alas? Well, it's better...that the skunks rip up the grass to get at). They spend millions...and in wet, warm England, grass grows with little effort...Plantain, crab grass and quack grass are indeed obnoxious...
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When quacks bilk the sick and old.
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report
; ...customers." Not only do patients who turn to quacks go without needed care, but some "cures...patients "seriously consider or actually try quack remedies or unproven... cures." Sufferers...of mistletoe, Easter lilies, bamboo grass, vegetable oil and ground horse's warts...congress to enact stiffer laws ...
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