Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though FX-10 shows enormous promise, it will not solve watering problems everywhere. Because part of its advantage depends on a reasonably shallow water table, even enthusiasts acknowledge that in certain locations -- on hillsides, for instance, or in parts of the desert Southwest -- the grass may require irrigation. Another limiting factor is temperature: as with other St. Augustine grasses, even a day below freezing proves deadly. Any place north of, say, Houston will not be hospitable...
Pettigrew once started a short story with the title "Under the Big Sky." It was to be "an end of the world sort of thing." An anthropologist was going to be out in the desert somewhere, studying an obscure nomad tribe, when the rest of the world was destroyed by a nuclear holocaust. Suddenly these people living on the margins of the world, ignored by humanity, were propelled onto center stage--they were the only humans left, and the anthropologist's view of them changed completely...
...kind of like this oasis in Harvard's patriarchal desert," describes concentrator Joanne Dushay...
Directing a film about Jim Morrison and the Doors, he applied fake Indian pictographs to a cavern in the Mojave Desert. They were supposed to be easily erasable. They weren...
...eased the control stick back for a gut-wrenching turn and climb, then rolled my fighter above the enemy plane. The California desert spun dizzily when I came zooming down behind him as he tried to shake...