Word: forestation
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...venue that abounds with creative possibilities, which makes the use of space in this production feel underwhelming and conventional. John Malinowski’s lighting fails to help delineate spaces or clarify locations, the exception being an electrifying sequence in which Puck (Maurice Emmanuel Parent) enters the nighttime forest under eerie, deep-blue backlight...
...latest evidence for that assertion comes in a study just published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management, in which Finnish researchers looked at how the northern forests will respond as the growing season gets longer. In the current climate, says lead author Anna Kuparinen, of the University of Helsinki, pine and birch trees in the northernmost parts of Europe are stunted, in part because they have less time to grow each year than their more southerly counterparts. They've also evolved mechanisms that protect them from the harshest cold. "They actually stop growing before the frost comes," says Kuparinen...
...evčenko's approach to life, according to Flier, could be summed up as "complete devotion to knowledge." Unlike the close-minded historians described in his law of the dog and the forest, Ševčenko was curious about everything, according to Flier...
...full days into his Hawaii vacation, Barack Obama went to Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay on Monday for his usual 50-minute workout and made a brief stop at the Kailua Racquet Club, a 72-year-old club that was established as a private hideaway amid a forest but is now in the middle of a residential neighborhood. (He may have played tennis with the First Lady, but that has not been confirmed.) Then the President put on a suit coat - but no tie - as he faced the nation to talk about the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas...
...Attended a private Catholic girls' school in nearby Lake Forest and then Georgetown University, where she gradated magna cum laude in 1984 with a degree in finance...