In Switzerland, you usually collect your leaves (if you have a garden) with fallen branches of trees, cut gras and other "green waste" and put them into a green container/trash bin. Then, a truck stoos by every other week or so and the bin's contents get poured into the truck.
In America, the team of 534 N Monroe Street performed an extra effort at 11pm on a Wednesday night to get the huge pile of leaves - brushed/collected together the Saturday before - to the street, hoping that a truck would collect it as scheduled the next morning. There is not green waste bin, so the leaves get "sucked in" [remember Electolux' famous ad from the 1970s or so: "Nothing sucks like Electrolux" - poor Swedes]. Indeed, 14 days later, a truck came by and did the job: A lawn sign two blocks away reminded the neighborhood "Vacuum leave collection, Nov 25". Strangely, just one block further, huge piles of leaves still embellish the streets - maybe the truck lost its breath?
yeah, you really can suck leaves: http://www.arlingtonva.us/Departments/EnvironmentalServices/swd/EnvironmentalServicesSWDLeafCollectionSched.aspx
and something else sucks money...:
I was honored to join the selected many (who had an invitation/reservation/links to Congress(wo)men or else) today and visited the all new Congress Visitor Center CVC (costs: just 630-odd m$) before it's actual opening on Dec 2. Apparently, construction took about 7 years and the result is gorgeous: Virginia sandstone, the large "Emancipation Hall" reception hall, embellished with some statues that have been moved from the Capitol here (among others Astronaut Swigart of Apollo XIII and the plaster version of Lady Liberty (the lead one is on top of the Capitol dome) and of course an impressive exhibition hall with an abridged version of the Senate's and House's history. An exciting movie introduces the audience to this Temple of Liberty.
In any case: it's worth a prolonged visit and also worthwile to spend some thoughts on liberty and the purpose of good policymaking.
Sadly, there are a lot of security precautions that hugely restrict visitors' moves. A visit in 1998 was rather simple: you just walked into the Rotunda and there friendly guides welcomed you (guess what: there was no such thing as a bag control or x-ray). Now, it seems there are more policemen than guides...
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