Last spring,Michelle Obama and a group of students planted a vegetable garden on the South Lawn of the White House.

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Of 94 children screened last spring, seven had undiagnosed heart disease and two needed surgery.

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And last spring, the company redesigned the oven, replacing the traditional light bulb used for baking with an electric heating element, then switching the oven's door from the side to the front.

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The original Oscar and its attendant bath products have received updated and far finer packaging, and last spring, just in time for Mother's Day, a fresher, less powdery spin-off called Esprit d'Oscar was introduced.

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And, last spring, along with Karl Case of Wellesley College and Anne Thompson of McGraw-Hill Construction, I conducted a detailed survey of the attitudes of recent home buyers in four American cities, as I discussed here in October.

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