Word: misting
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...mammal cell genetics, plant molecular biology and even plant cloning and transgenic experimentation is conducted at the CIGB. The buildings are crammed with state-of-the-art equipment imported from Europe, Brazil and Japan. Visitors pass through myriad barriers that spray visitors, dressed in special suits, with a disinfectant mist. The CIGB, which has its own Intranet, does handle a considerable amount of work with the kinds of bacteria and virus agents that can be used to develop bio-weapons - but then, so do almost all vaccine-producing labs around the world...
...SMOOTH SAILING It was the romance of it all that persuaded me to take the slow boat to Luang Prabang from Huay Xai, meandering down the Mekong through a veil of river mist like some intrepid adventurer of old ... Well, O.K., romance and fear: the fast boats have a reputation for dispatching passengers to the murky depths...
...past several weeks, Birtwell has resided in Lakeland, Fla., site of the Tigers’ spring training facility. Before the big league club broke camp for opening day, Birtwell was practicing alongside major league ballplayers. For Birtwell, the experience dissipated some of the mist surrounding the stars...
Tran Van Ngoc was walking to school the first time he saw the planes trailing clouds of white fog. The 16-year-old stopped to watch as the American aircraft circled his village and the mist settled to earth. "It smelled sweet, like ripe guava," he recalls. It was a routine repeated every morning for a year, and soon the village got used to it?just as they got used to a barren landscape, with tree leaves turning black and branches withering...
...began to burn off the morning mist, and accompanied by the sounds of the waking villages, the pilot switched on the engines and we moved upstream once again. All along the banks, river residents started on their morning chores, washing clothes, dishes and themselves. I saw that the docks were extensions of the houses they served. Men sat out in the sun reading the paper, while women nursed babies in the cool morning air. Koong, one of the friendliest of the four crew members, watched the waking river for a while and asked me how I was enjoying the trip...