Natural lawns (lawns of nonconventional turf grasses) are adapted to their regional rainfalls, soil types, and climatic conditions.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The American Meadow Garden'

Crews had worked late into the night Wednesday at Lilydale Regional Park, washing away soil with fire hoses and bringing in search dogs to look for one of the children who had remained missing overnight.

CNN: 2 children dead after gravel slide at Minnesota park

From then until 1990, when peace of a sort began gradually to take hold, Jim Muir was caught up covering the fascinating and often horrendous twists and turns of a conflict whose many complex elements would erupt in ever-different and more startling ways as the local, regional and international powers slugged it out on Lebanese soil.

BBC: Middle East Correspondent Jim Muir

Deteriorating relations with the U.S.--with its 37, 000 troops on Korean soil--which has stayed too long as a nursemaid of regional security, are feeding this backward momentum.

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