Word: humid
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...Horticultural Technology Center (CTHA) is propagating rare orchids, endangered in the wild by plant poachers who steal-to-order for international clients. The same is happening at the Tsimbazaza Botanical and Zoological Park (PBZT), where new greenhouses are being built to grow orchids from Madagascar's highlands and humid lowland rain forests. Just a few years ago such efforts would have seemed futile as Madagascar diced with ecological disaster. During the 1980s and '90s, the island's natural vegetation was being destroyed so fast that conservationists feared all would be lost early this century. With their natural habitats facing extinction...
...it’s also sitting in the bleachers in Yankee Stadium on an unbelievably humid June night, yelling out the Yankee roll call, calling out to Mariano Rivera, and mocking Oakland A’s outfielder Eric Byrnes. It could also be, for some of you, taking part in some ostensibly inferior equivalent tradition in Fenway Park...
...veranda with views across the city; the Crystal room houses two antique Zanzibari beds and a handblown glass chandelier. But the crowning attraction is the restaurant. The fixed-price ($25-$30) dinner typically comprises local seafood, meat and vegetables infused with the spices that thrive in Zanzibar's hot, humid climate: cloves, nutmeg, turmeric and cinnamon. Try boku-boku, the rich beef dish traditionally made for people returning from a pilgrimage to Mecca. Seated on sumptuous Arabian cushions, filled with good wine and fine food, I feel like I'm floating on a five-star magic carpet...
...veranda with views across the city; the Crystal room houses two antique Zanzibari beds and a handblown glass chandelier. But the crowning attraction is the restaurant. The fixed-price ($25-$30) dinner typically comprises local seafood, meat and vegetables infused with the spices that thrive in Zanzibar's hot, humid climate: cloves, nutmeg, turmeric and cinnamon. Try boku-boku, the rich beef dish traditionally made for people returning from a pilgrimage to Mecca. Seated on sumptuous Arabian cushions, filled with good wine and fine food, I feel like I'm floating on a five-star magic carpet...
...Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pronounced, there are "known unknowns," and then there are "unknown unknowns." Some things are actually quite hard to fix because the systems behind them are intricate, complicated and created by humans. New Yorkers and the inhabitants of a whole swath of North America spent a delirious, humid night in the complete dark in August, and for hours no one had a clue why the power grid had crashed or how on earth to fix it. The glitch that guaranteed that the space shuttle Columbia would disintegrate on re-entry occurred at lift-off, and none...