Word: fern
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...began scaling the craggy flanks of Tonelagee Mountain, the haze lifted momentarily to expose a breathtaking spectrum of color and texture: tracts of lavender heather, russet and burnt-gold rushes, somber rock, downy moss, a thousand shades, of green rushing streams, fern-limned pools, and glistening earth and slag. The slate-grey sky rendered every other hue all the more dramatic. This close to the earth and the sky, this deep and this far within the terrain, there was nothing between me and the poetry of the place...
...White's masterpiece Charlotte's Web, the parents of Fern and Avery Arable watch nervously as the children charge off toward the Ferris wheel and frozen custard, the merry-go-round and wonderful music of a bustling fairground. "Well, they've got to grow up some time," Mr. Arable says to his wistful missus. "And a fair is a good place to start, I guess...
...every critic is convinced. Jutta Kill of the forest advocacy group FERN worries that rich countries will use forestry credits as an excuse to avoid reducing industrial emissions. What's certain is that avoided deforestation gives tropical nations a vital stake in the efforts to slow climate change by not forcing them to choose between development and the environment. Indonesia is already pushing for deforestation to be included in any post-Kyoto deal at the climate- change talks this winter. Let's hope it succeeds. It's time to save the trees, so they can save...
...look beyond the lawn mower and there are signs of abundance that even the most jaded urbanite can decipher. The garden hoses hang limply on the wall, the rose bushes don't need constant coddling, the basil plant is big as a bush, and the potted fern is threatening to block the path to the front door. Everything is green, not gold this summer, except for the bag of plump, ripe tomatoes delivered by a neighor. Tomato vines love the rain. "It may well be a tomato year - a happy thought," writes Austin organic farmer Carol Ann Sayles from Boggy...
...Blockbuster and other large stores. Those of us who are linguistically impaired can get English subtitles for the movies; but the extras are in Spanish only. Also, the movies' visual quality ranges from mediocre to muddy. I've seen TV prints of Mexican films from the same period, like Fernández; La Perla and Maria Candelaria, and they gleam. But Las Islas Marias, the Infante-Fernández collaboration in the new collection (and shot, like the other two, by the great cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa), looks like a faded dupe...