Word: forestation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...potency is probably due to its unusual habitat. "It's unique to the Amazon," notes Alexander Schauss, senior scientist at AIBMR Life Sciences, a contract research organization in Washington. "The palm tree that has the açaí berries is the canopy, the very top of the rain forest. Its berries are strongly exposed to ultraviolet radiation and have had to develop chemical strategies to deal with it." Which makes them an invaluable resource for skin health...
Between each of the five shows, Sälzer is up and about, shaking hands. Not a man who sits still, he runs around 8 miles (13 km) in a nearby forest every day in sneakers that are the only items in his closet that do not bear the Boss label. Sälzer will usually spend the rest of his day on his toes because his policy is to limit his time in the CEO's office to two hours a day. His style is to manage by chatting: anyone can approach him, and whether he's in the showrooms...
...represents, on a broader level, the tendency to rush into high profile, fix-all “solutions†before we have fully analyzed the interdependency of all the elements involved. Instead of pursuing those modest, non-fanciful solutions that we have reason to believe might work (like forest management to increase carbon uptake and a carbon tax), we’ve seen millions of dollars plunged into a wasteful scheme that shuttles money directly from taxpayer to corn farmer, nastily hiking world food prices...
...only be alleviated by eating.4)Eating. When all else fails, the latest Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) creation is the ultimate small talk. Noodle station? Nice bowls. Ranger cookies! Often too crunchy, often too soft, but make you feel like you are going on an expedition into the forest. Popcorn chicken. What you wanted when you started this column. Go ahead, indulge in a few, er, kernels? If, after entering civilization in the dining hall, you can’t bring yourself to return to your poorly ventilated, book-filled room, take your computer down to the dining hall...
...target and a large bomb disperses the crowd, the movie flashes back 23 mins. and starts all over again, in be-kind-rewind fashion, and we get the perspectives of President Ashton (William Hurt), two of his Secret Service bodyguards (Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox), an American tourist bystander (Forest Whitaker) and a few of the terrorists as they develop their scheme and attempt their escape...