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<div><font face="Lucida Grande">"Practiced in cities across
Europe and with a growing presence in the northern United States,
eco-pasture is an alternative and eco-friendly way to maintain urban
green spaces with the help of our grass-eating friends. In the case of
Biquette à Montréal, the herbivores in question are sheep. These
helpful ruminants do an amazing job of replacing lawn mowers .... ,
fertilize the soil naturally and help increase urban biodiversity by
making the city more inviting to bird and insect species that usually
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<div>Photo from the Montreal park show urban kids watching sheep</div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande">"'People of all ages have told us
what it means to them to connect with nature, and how peaceful it is
to have animals in the middle of downtown,' she
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<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">"Still, the boom of the
1980s was unique. Not only did creditors lend more freely than they
had in the past, but the government intervened more actively than it
had ever done before to absorb the inevitable losses."<br>
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"The fundamental investment question is whether even the government
is big enough to underwrite, with good money, the losses born of the
lending practices of the 1980s."</font><br>
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<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">"By standing behind good
banks and bad banks alike, the government in effect removed the oldest
charter in banking -- that is, safekeeping."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">"In the early 1990s a
number of long-running trends were apparently cresting Š. Tommy
Mullaney, eleven, of Crownsville, Maryland, returned home from camp in
the summer of 1990 to find his name inscribed on a MasterCard complete
with a $5,000 credit line. 'I jumped up and down and said Wow - the
hologram was cool,' Tommy told the Washington Post. 'But it sure made
me wonder who was running that bank'."<br>
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James Grant.<i> Money of the Mind: Borrowing and Lending in America
from the Civil War to Michael Milken.</i> Farrar Straus Giroux.
1992.<br>
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