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This spring's record blizzard left the more than 600 small shrub-like lilac bushes virtually untouched, whereas many of the arboretum's larger trees suffered serious damage...
...raccoon was acting aggressive," said Baker. "He came out of the shrub and challenged me. I tried to prevent him entering the dorm and so I held out a trash barrel which he ran into...
Bunyavanich was nominated for the award by Michele N. Holbrook, assistant professor of biology. Bunyavanich traveled with Holbrook to Chile this past summer on a research partnership through the Radcliffe Research Partnership Program. They did research on a plant named nolanamollis, a desert shrub which grows in northern Chile...
...help them get off." Dromgoole, host of a popular radio and TV garden show, tells his audiences to get rid of Kentucky bluegrass and seed their lawns with buffalo grass, a robust short-stemmed native needing only occasional mowing. Instead of finicky azaleas, Dromgoole recommends lantana, an attractive flowering shrub that, in central Texas at least, thrives on benign neglect...
...movie's global reach is a large part of the problem. Things would be a lot more exciting if the implacable crazy were constantly hanging around the neighborhood, turning every shadow, shrub and fast-food joint into a potential menace (see Robert De Niro in Cape Fear). And the film's fascination with the CIA's high-tech capabilities for worldwide surveillance of miscellaneous creeps is not as stirring as its makers seem to think. It leads to lots of shots of people intently staring into computer screens or exchanging testy dialogue in small rooms...