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...clay hole, now landscaped and studded with native vegetation, to arrive at the main attraction: two honeycombed domes, shaped like grapefruit halves, bubbling up from the base. These are the biomes, giant greenhouses that shelter the flora and mimic the climate of tropical rainforests and Mediterranean farms. Enter the humid and heated rainforest biome on a drizzly Cornish day, and you'll soon break a sweat worthy of Singapore...
...García Márquez’s Cartagena, Columbia during the first few scenes of “Love in the Time of Cholera.” It’s a vibrant place of flailing parakeets and short bursts of subtle humor; an exotic world of humid jungles and colonial facades, of dying doctors and undying love. Is the world about to witness Cartagena’s coronation as the new city of love? Not quite. Mike Newell’s “Love in the Time of Cholera,” although beautifully filmed...
...including “laptops left unattended [and] unsecured.” Rebecca M. Rohr ’08, another of the three theft victims, whose laptop was taken from her bedroom in Quincy House, thought her suite was secure but said her efforts may have been foiled by humidity. “I have four roommates, and we’re pretty sure that the door was locked,” Rohr said. “But sometimes it stays a little bit open when it’s humid outside.” She added that her roommates...
...Vietnam as a metaphor. They never recognize it as being what it is, but rather as a symbol for something else. It becomes a place of tunnels and labyrinths, where lost souls roam. It becomes a hell full of demonic pleasure and pain, but is not recognized as humid, foreign, gritty Vietnam long enough for it to become a concrete place.Perhaps Johnson is trying to make a statement about how humans think in metaphor, that we are not literal beings. But, like his portrayal of Vietnam, that conception of thinking rings hollow. Is that really the sum totality of human...
...humid evening two months ago, a dozen police cars rolled up to the simple Riyadh residence of Salman al-Huraisi, a 28-year-old hotel security guard. The policemen stormed into the house, breaking down doors, tearing through personal belongings and crying, "God is great!" Then they arrested al-Huraisi, along with 10 other family members. His alleged crime: consuming and selling beer...