Word: clime
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...World War II. Still, outsiders don't play much of a part in the traditional lifestyle of fishing, gardening and carving that has sustained these Melanesian people of the islets and lagoons. Christian missionaries, as well as some shady proselytizers, have founded peaceful flocks. Time lolls about in this clime, news occasionally wafts in. Now they are the news...
...Cape Town and in Zwolle, the Netherlands, and working at Dutch design studio DenHartogMusch and at Alsop Architects, Frank settled in London, where he sells his "free-range" products made of urban detritus (think brick accessory bowl). Soon he plans to relocate to Catalonia, Spain, for the warmer clime. He hopes to teach his sustainable-design techniques to poor South Africans and help them organize a free-trade work group...
Ever looked out the window on a cold, wet day and dreamed of relocating to a gentler clime, where the sun smiles brightly, exotic flora perfume the air and the prices are forgiving? Tahir Shah did, and the result is The Caliph's House, a wry, energetic account of how the travel writer moved his pregnant wife, Rachana, and young daughter, Ariane, from London to Morocco, which he knew from childhood vacations. Think you've heard this all before, perhaps in Peter Mayle's best-selling A Year in Provence and its sequels, or Frances Mayes' tales of Tuscan transplantation...
...shotgun is smart. Take its ventilation. The house, perched above the ground on concrete-block piers, has doors in the front and back, windows in all rooms and wood-sheathed walls with no insulation. In a hot, humid clime like Houston's, that "allows air to continually circulate under the house and through the house," says Zamore. "This was the old way of getting AC, before electricity...
...Southeast Asia's largest flower farm, Dalat Hasfarm, thrives in Vietnam's central highlands, producing 500,000 stems a day for export. But the farm's 300 flower varieties aren't all that's blossoming in the cool mountain clime. In downtown Dalat, love is almost always in the air. Dalat has evolved into Vietnam's honeymoon capital. At hot spots like the scenic Valley of Love park and crescent-shaped Xuan Huong Lake, you'll find a lot of Disneyesque diversion, such as swan-shaped paddleboats. They may not be to everyone's taste, but there's no denying...