Word: humidity
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...soaring Amazonian rain forest, lush with 300 species of plants. At its periphery, tree ferns and bromeliads flank a stream that leads to a mountainside flood-plain forest and an open vista of tropical savanna. There, plants from Africa, Australia and South America bask in a less humid atmosphere, where bees and hummingbirds help pollinate plants and a colony of termites aids in the decomposition of dying material...
...little after 4 p.m. on a humid summer day, nine-month-old Rayvon Jamison was maneuvering his blue-and-white walker toward the refrigerator in his grandmother's kitchen. Suddenly, seven 9-mm bullets ripped through the tin-plated front door, one piercing his tiny body. Rayvon's chilling shrieks of pain shot through the dingy pale brick apartment building in the Highbridge section of the Bronx. His mother Esther scooped up the bleeding child and ran down five flights of stairs and into the street screaming, "They shot my baby! They shot my baby!" Within the hour Rayvon...
...height of the Venetian tourist season, the public gardens are empty. Where is the audience for the new? The national pavilions, that whimsical collage of defunct official styles, are as deserted as the dream piazza in a De Chirico, populated only by young guardiani doing their nails in the humid silence. It reminds you of the old nursery rhyme...
...dough is mixed and allowed to rise, then cut into pieces, allowed to rise again, molded into final form, "proofed" in one last rising, baked and cooled. (Commercial breads may sit through only one or two short risings.) Baking is also subject to a host of vagaries. A humid day, for example, can wreck the crust on a sourdough...
Spring break for many undergraduates means sandy beaches with a sun setting in the distance and tan bodies streched out near the ocean. But for 28 Harvard students, the last week in March will mean a trip to rainy and humid Luxembourg to manage the third annual Harvard Model Congress Europe (HMCE) conference...