Bean Sprouts (Free subscription) | yesterday
Usually when I feature a Weed of the Week it's something that grows in my own garden or allotment. But I haven't seen any giant hogweed anywhere in my area, and a good thing too. Giant hogweed looks similar to cow parsley (which does grow in this area and almost everywhere else). But unlike its harmless lookalike, hogweed is huge - it can grow as high as 7m tall - and it...
Vulture (Free subscription) | yesterday
Photo: Courtesy of Showtime This season, Weeds has done away with the opening song, and along with it, the little ticky-tacky boxes on a hillside. We wish they would bring back the endless domestic scenes — Nancy in the tub, spraying a dying plant; Heylia and Conrad in the kitchen, baking cookies and ruminating on the blah blah blah of life, that theme we so enjoyed last episode. This one played...
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
The growth of a toxic weed is threatening the lives of cows and horses in Jersey, the States says.
TV Squad (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: OpEd , Episode Reviews , Weeds , Reality-Free (S04E04) Nobody mourns like the Botwins. I can't decide whose behavior was the least appropriate; there certainly were a lot of contenders. Lenny's countdown was extremely insensitive, and his actions throughout the episode didn't do him any favors, either. I'll save the specifics for after the jump, but he made Nancy's Andy-ditching...
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
A giant weed that can cause long-term skin damage to humans is being eradicated in part of West Sussex.
Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Fertility doctors have developed a fitness test for embryos which they claim could substantially improve the chances of pregnancy. The one-minute test is to be carried out alongside standard IVF treatment and could be approved for use in fertility clinics...
Domestic Fuel (Free subscription) | yesterday
Making ethanol from a nuisance weed could be an idea whose time has come. A Tennessee entrepreneur claims to have found a way to make ethanol out of kudzu - into a product he calls “Kudzunol.” Doug Mizell is a co-founder of Agro*Gas Industries, LLC, which he promotes on his MySpace page. He and [...]
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Damage to hedgerows in Co Meath is being blamed on careless work carried out as part of the first national noxious weed-spraying programme, writes .
Starpulse News (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
NEW YORK (AP) - From the drug dealing of "Weeds" to the sexual anxiety of "Spring Awakening."[...] Read more!
BuddyTV (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Nancy Botwin, the witty and very likeable protagonist of Showtime's top-rated series Weeds, is apparently a huge influence on another series currently on the works. Renowned film critic turned director Rod Laurie (The Contender) is reportedly developing a “female-driven drama”...
Popdose (Free subscription) | yesterday
sit•com n. Informal A situation comedy; a television comedy series involving a group of regular characters in everyday situations, often set in the home and/or workplace For three seasons, Weeds was the very model of a modern pay-cable sitcom. Set in the fictional, cookie-cutter L.A. suburb Agrestic, it centered on widowed housewife-turned-pot dealer Nancy Botwin (played [...]
ProHipHop - Hip Hop Marketing & Business News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Looks like everything's good to go though there are still some loose ends at netweed. Posting will resume tomorrow.
Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Once you walled China and bent the Yangze to your will, the small matter of weed and algae was not going to stop the Olympic sailing regatta in its tracks. One has to hope that this is not a George W-style 'hostilities have ended' statement of epically premature proportions but the Chinese do say the weed problem has been licked. "Only 1.1 square kilometers of the 49.48-square-kilometer...
NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | yesterday
North Carolina Agriculture Department officials hope to head off an invasive grass known as cogongrass before it becomes the next kudzu.
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
SANTO DOMINGO.- Chamber of Deputies president Julio Cesar Valentin proposed reduce the size of the Legislative Branch in the next constitutional reform, because in his view Congress is headed toward a total collapse.
