Word: forest
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...Burn, baby, burn. That's a beautiful thing." ENRON TRADER, after a forest fire shut down a major transmission line into California, on an audio tape showing apparent collusion to manipulate energy prices in the state...
Harvard adds a New Zealand forest to its holdings after the Harvard Management Company buys a forestry estate for $650 million...
...received a B.A. in forest management from the University of Minnesota, but according to Becker, he returned to the college when a job fell through...
...best known for its handicrafts, particularly the fine, handblown glassware from the factories in nearby Marinha Grande. The delicate glass, often richly colored, was a by-product of Portugal's maritime ambitions: 700 years ago, the monarchy needed ships and ordered the planting of 12,000 hectares of pine forest to provide timber and control the shifting coastal sands. Those two raw materials attracted glassmakers to the area in the 18th century; the region has been a centre for the industry ever since. Today Leiria produces 45,000 tons of glassware (worth €175 million), and exports three-quarters...
Sometimes it's both the heat and the humidity. According to a study in the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, weather can affect the success of LASIK surgery, used to correct poor eyesight in a million American patients a year. Dr. Keith Walter at Wake Forest University reports that the hotter and more humid it is when doctors perform the operation, the more likely patients are to come back for follow-up procedures. High humidity can apparently cause the cornea to swell, affecting the surgeon's accuracy. --By Sora Song