Word: shelvesful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Australia's early naturalists went to great lengths to get new specimens. For Robyn Stacey, shooting the wonders of the Macleay Museum's natural history collections took its own kind of intrepidity. She had to climb and re-climb the three flights of stairs to the museum's public gallery...
Next to it is a flight of stairs that leads up to the choral library. This dank space, with the pert smell of cement, has high, downward-sloping ceilings. Choir secretaries who serve as librarians of the literature. Metal shelves holding alphabetized black boxes full of music sheets lined the...
The signs of Kibweze's newfound prosperity are everywhere. Two banks have opened branches, shiny bicycles fill the dirt tracks that criss-cross the village and new buildings are appearing everywhere. Vegcare, the company that collects the produce and sells it on to Britain, estimates the trade is worth $46...
For example, health advocates ask why the most fattening calories on our grocery shelves are the most subsidized. During an unprecedented obesity epidemic, why not support fruits and vegetables instead of cattle and poultry feed? Similarly, green groups would shift funding from subsidies for the grain-industrial complex to conservation...
That's the future. For now, getting shoppers to change their habits is difficult. In a store in Secaucus, N.J., 470 miles (750 km) east of Elyria, CEO Scott is looking sternly at a serving platter priced at $24.99 as if it didn't get the memo. Around the pricey...