At least this is how it seemed en route to washington , as the train rolled past unkempt backyards and graffitied factory walls , icy ball fields and the back doors of crumbling buildings .
Surprising discoveries in recent weeks of radioactive material in the tokyo metropolitan area has stoked fears among many japanese that danger may be lurking in their backyards .
由于近几周在东京都市圈意外发现放射性物质,很多日本人担心自家后院可能就潜藏着危险。
Greek bankers told me that people had taken about one-third of their money out of their accounts ; many , it seems , were keeping what savings they had under their beds or buried in their backyards .
California narcotics officers have pulled millions fewer pot plants from remote forests than in past years because they claim drug traffickers have come down out of the mountains to plant pot in backyards and on prime farmland .
In the delta town of rome ( population : not listed on the census website ; churches : four ) , homes are modest , sometimes tumbledown , cars rust in backyards and the steadiest jobs are at a nearby jail .
" A lot of these operations have been set up as family workshops in people 's backyards , which makes it much harder for the government to control , " she says . " You cannot buy these products in the supermarket , but they sell well in rural areas . "