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...Drought is more than a precipitation deficit," observes University of Washington climatologist Philip Mote. The real problem, he says, "is that you don't have as much water as you'd like at a given point in time." And that goes for plants as well as people. For accompanying an earlier snowmelt, scientists note, is an earlier start to the growing season, which means that the demand for water by forests, marshes and grasslands--not to mention agricultural crops, lawns and putting greens--is bound to rise. In this context, a "normal" amount of precipitation may not be sufficient...
...Phyllis always had a theatrical energy - no great-lady airs; rather, a practical charm, an energetic poise that could make any impromptu sentence as persuasive as a speech from a Philip Barry comedy. At the time of her marriage to Kirkland, she was parading it on stage, ?appearing in summer stock in New England,? the Sun obit observes, ?as well as pre-Broadway engagements of more ambitious plays.? The Missing in Action Website, which highlights female pioneers in TV production, reports that Phyllis ?showed her maverick nature by traveling war-torn Europe in a USO tour of Noel Coward...
...agricultural policies. And agritourism could be a commercially viable way for farmers to earn a living while keeping the rural landscape intact. Even in relatively wealthy countries, the demand is urgent. In Britain, an average farmer earns somewhere between $18,000 and $27,000 a year, according to Philip Clarke, the Europe editor of Farmers Weekly magazine. If you take the long working hours into account, Clarke adds, that's below the minimum wage. Not surprisingly, a 2002 study by Exeter University found that about 60% of farms were engaged in some form of diversification, ranging from contracting out labor...
...PHILIP GREEN, British retail billionaire, on rival Marks & Spencer after failing in his $16.9 billion bid for the clothing group
While the 1992 European patent had fully protected the method of genetic manipulation used by John Emory Andrus Professor of Genetics Philip Leder ’56, then-Harvard researcher Timothy Stewart and DuPont, the ruling marks an additional step back from a 2001 decision that restricted it to rodents...