Word: blanketing
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Tropical rain forests blanket about 7% of the planet and support nearly 50% of earth's known species. A single hectare (2.5 acres) of this lush arboreal growth may include more than 100 species of tree, each with its own interdependent colonies of plants and animals. But in the past several hundred years, the area of the globe covered by rain forest has decreased by some 44%. According to one U.N. study, 23,000 sq. mi. of rain forests are cut down every year -- an area about the size of West Virginia. One World Resources Institute staffer calculated that developers...
...just 90 court-approved requests in 1982 to more than 150 in each of the past two years. The various investigating agencies, including state and local police, have found novel places to hide their bugs: in a Perrier bottle, a stuffed toy, a pair of binoculars, shoes, an electric blanket, a horse's saddle. Agents even admit to dropping snooping devices into a confessional at a Roman Catholic church frequented by mobsters, as well as a church candlestick holder and a church men's room. All this, agents insist, was done with court permission...
...picture leaned closer to the screen as the movie unraveled, subject to some tacit gravitational pull. In this sense it's a genuine edge-of-your-seater, maybe even a beneath-the-seater, or shall we say a...crouching-in-the-aisler? Bring a pal. Bring a security blanket. Bring your goshdarn...
...Security Blanket...
...Laurenland, the images whisper, where fantasy and finery go together like hand in well-stitched glove. Watch polo matches in Palm Beach, trim in a crested blazer and trousers of crisp linen. Sip cognac by the fireplace of a Sun Valley, chalet, snug under a brightly colored Navajo blanket and clad in a Nordic apres-ski sweater and wool twill slacks. Go on safari in Kenya wearing a bush jacket and khaki shorts that would do justice to Robert Redford in Out of Africa. Sip tea at London's Connaught Hotel, draped to perfection in a chalk-stripe suit...