Word: leaf
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...getting the blend just right three drinks at a time. Instead, the kettle is put on, some large amount of time passes before it begins to whistle (enough to read at least one good article from the New York Times Magazine), and the pot is filled with real (loose-leaf) tea. This tea, brewed correctly, stays warm for the entire two-and-a-half glasses, enough to finish the magazine...
...naturalist turns the flora and fauna of Borneo, Madagascar and the Amazon basin into objets d'art. Not a human is in sight, though Lanting's artistry and perseverance are hard to miss in these kingdoms where he was the intruder and adversary. As he notes, "I have seen leaf-cutter ants eat my tent, fungi grow in my lenses, and larvae emerge from the flesh of my leg." This reasonably priced volume is ideal for the bright child who needs to know there's a world beyond PlayStation2--a world of drama, danger and grandeur; a realm both beautiful...
Europe can't see the wood for the trees, says the U.S. But the Europeans believe that what they're seeing is actually a giant fig leaf. Make-or-break talks in The Hague on the Kyoto climate change treaty appeared doomed for failure, Tuesday, after the European Union rejected a U.S. proposal to factor in its forests as a means of cutting its output of the carbon gases that create global warming...
...seems clear, though: Even if it's a bottom, don't expect the good times to return just yet. With the economic-minded fretting about the winter and spring - Slowdown? Inflation? Both? - and the policy-minded starting to think seriously about the election, every earnings report is a tea leaf and every tumble a bargain hunt. The tentative consensus from the CNBC crowd is that with trading volume running higher on the sell-off than on the recovery, this thing may indeed be a bottom, but it's a bottom to be tested and retested in the next days...
...would rather be a male nurse than a doctor. Also the kind of guy whose luggage the airline is bound to lose. And the sort you know is going to end up on Jack's roof, chasing a cat, holding a live wire in one hand, putting out a leaf fire with one foot while trying to pretend the overflow in the septic tank down below is not his fault. De Niro is getting awfully good at comic menace (see Analyze This), and Stiller, a handsome guy who never alludes to his good looks, is a deliciously preoccupied innocent...