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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
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One of the more interesting Green trends that have captured the limelight recently is the illegal phenomenon known as “guerilla gardening.”
It likely already is sprouting around Asheville, where such a concept surely would be welcome in many ecologically conscious circles.
The phenomenon has been described as a global movement of the grass-roots variety where people seek to beautify empty or overgrown public space, usually under the cover of darkness and without the permission of municipal officials.
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
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John North
Editor & Publisher |
I thought I had seen — and heard — everything until I did a bob and weave upon reading about a new hybrid sport that combines boxing and chess.
The combatants switch back and forth between boxing and chess — repeatedly putting their gloves on and taking them off, so that they can move the pieces around the board without clumsily knocking them over — in a sort of brains-and-brawn biathlon.
“It’s the No. 1 thinking game and the No 1 fighting game,” Lepe Rubingh, the sport’s 32-year-old founder, recently told the press in Berlin, Germany. The sport has been organized since 2003 and has become increasingly popular since then.
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