Word: humid
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...near the exit, I turn to watch the semi-celebrities down their last cocktails, finish munching on cookies, and trickle out into the humid Manhattan summer night. The premiere wasn’t quite the glamorous gathering I’d been expecting, but gallivanting with the jet set is fun while it lasts...
...healing birth defects. But my emotional, aesthetic side is completely struck by the wonder of the scene: by the music echoing from the giant underground basilica, by the way people's hands lovingly stroke the rocks of the grotto, by the sense of hope and faith in the humid July air. Theirs is a hope and faith that leaves me out of the loop, because there's a part of me that would love—and I mean love—to be able to ditch my skepticism, get down on my knees and pray my heart...
...Perhaps not as formal as ours but certainly not a bunch of farmers throwing something together." Chachi says the Marines "are under observation pretty much most of the time." At 9 p.m., while some of the men gather outside to smoke and chat, wearing their body armor in the humid night air, three illumination flares float above, followed by three loud detonations. "Is that us or them?" a Marine asks. It's them. "M____________ are illuminating now," someone else says. The enemy is getting professional...
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
...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...