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A British man who kept a detailed diary on his lawn mowing for the past 20 years, has had his information included in a study on global warming. Seventy-seven-year-old David Grisenthwaite's painstaking records on his lawn cutting were included as part of a study on global warming by the Royal Meteorological Society, the Daily Telegraph reported Saturday. Grass is growing for one month longer than it did 20 years ago, due to climate changes, according to the study. I didn't see it as being anything significant, but the data was passed on to the Royal Meteorological Society and they graphed...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers often become part of unexpected mob scenes -- huge crowds on subway platforms, at clothing sales, or at free concerts in places like Central Park. Now they are doing it on purpose, for fun. "Flash mobs," in which people show up at an assigned place at a certain time, perform some brief acts, and then leave, have descended on stores, a hotel and even a piece of a park in New York. In the latest occurrence, about 200 people converged on a Central Park ridge across from the Museum of Natural History on Thursday....