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...summer the garden helps keep the building cool by shielding it under a layer of moist material. In winter it insulates against cold. In both seasons, it reduces the storm-water runoff that occasionally overflows the Chicago sewers leading to Lake Michigan. Though the garden has yellowed a bit this summer, it still provides its cost-cutting benefits. Not incidentally, it also provides a habitat for birds, butterflies and grasshoppers. But not yet for people--the garden is closed to the public. Sometimes nature needs to work in peace...
...southward shift from New York City's suburbs, where many previous infections had occurred: all five of the summer's fatal cases have been recorded in Louisiana. Many of the bugs appear to have headed south for the summer, in search of the water they crave and the moist, warm temperatures required for efficient breeding...
After leaving Harvard, Ballmer was accepted to Stanford Business School (SBS) but deferred for a year to work at Procter & Gamble as an assistant product manager, marketing such products as Coldsnap Freezer Dessert Maker and Moist ‘n’ Easy Snack Cake...
...meals. Low stone boxes are built over steam vents and used as ovens. Ned's Cafe, the village restaurant, specializes in hangi, serving up the kind of hearty WWII-vintage meals that gave British food its bad name. But even the luncheon meat and chicken with stuffing comes out moist and pleasant, and made very palatable by the tang of the salts. Dessert, inevitably, is steamed pudding...
...most visible messes are the easiest to deal with. A moist paper towel will freshen up your monitor; a cotton swab can scrape the crud off the rollers in your mouse; a good burst from a can of compressed air will get the dust out of your keyboard. If your computer desktop is as messy as your real one, that's easily corrected too. You just have to be merciless. Dump those obsolete documents. Delete old e-mails without looking back. Trash any program you haven't used since the last millennium...