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Enjoyment of autumn colored by its hassles.(FAMILY TIMES)(LIFE AND TIMES)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20051106
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Byline: Jennifer Harper, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Listen, there in the distance. That ominous growling, snarling, groaning and grinding. Friend or foe? Republican or Democrat? B-52 or F-15?

E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e ...

Hearken now to a great noise like chain saws, door buzzers, harpies, hornets and maybe a flustered spokesman in the halls of Congress.

E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E ...

The leaf blowers are here, advancing street by street, sidewalk by sidewalk, in an annual autumnal rite that pits man against nature, and nature always wins. If only poet Percy Bysshe Shelley ...

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