Word: shades
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...organism can exist without affecting its environment. Lions dine on gazelles. A growing tree will shade out sun-loving herbaceous plants. All organisms excrete wastes. So the question facing the Earth Summit and humanity in general is not whether to affect the environment or not, but in what ways...
...periods as well. Diane English's new CBS comedy Love and War, for example, will have the all-but-foolproof spot following English's current hit, Murphy Brown. Hearts Afire, the new series from Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, will also get an enviable time period: after Bloodworth-Thomason's Evening Shade. Over at ABC, Tom Arnold's new sitcom The Jackie Thomas Show was surprisingly left off the fall schedule. But it has been promised a midseason spot, in the time period following -- what else? -- Mrs. Arnold's hit show, Roseanne...
...white, 13% Hispanic, 5% Asian, only 2% black -- is a pristine bedroom community of just over 100,000, where the average price of a home is $230,000. Much of it is so fresh-out-of-the-cellophane new that in some shopping malls the trees are not yet shade size. "We can see some urban pressures like graffiti start to spring up," says Mayor Greg Stratton, but he stresses that "among towns over 100,000, Simi Valley is one of the two safest communities...
...deforested much of Italy to fire their public baths, which consumed whole trunks at a time. They eventually built their homes to take full advantage of the sun's rays, and, being Romans, made laws to protect access to sunlight. Builders could not raise a structure that would cast shade on their neighbor without a special permit and a dispensation from the courts...
...floor of the greenhouse is a right triangle with the legs, 15 feet long, pointing south-east and south-west. In the winter, when the sun is low in the sky, the greenhouse receives light throughout the day. In summer, the house walls shade the greenhouse in the morning and evening so that sunlight enters for only four or five hours...