• The changes in the weather create a crust of hard ice over the lichen, preventing the reindeer from eating.

    UNESCO: On the frontlines of climate change: Sami reindeer herders

  • The moors that winter were often under a crust of snow not enough to blanket them in white, but a mean, dirty frosting on the hard earth and wilted shrubs.

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  • Mr Okiri works in a desolate part of Kenya, for a company that makes its wealth from a strange crust sitting on the top of a lake in the Rift Valley.

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  • Much of this, however, may benefit only a thin upper crust of Indian society.

    ECONOMIST: When India wires up

  • People looking at Al Gore today see a product of the American upper crust: a presidential contender born in Washington, reared in a top-floor suite of a hotel along Embassy Row, his father a senator, his mother trained in law, the high-achieving parents grooming their prince for political success at the finest private schools in the East.

    CNN: Excerpt: 'The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore'

  • At the time, I didn't understand what made it so wonderful, but on reflection, the pizza had fresh mozzarella, the right amount of fresh and tangy red sauce and a crust that was the perfect balance of taste and texture.

    WSJ: Chef Carla Hall on Learning to Love Food in Italy | Traveler's Tale

  • The crust of a pasty encircles the meat, a kind of Anglophile burrito.

    FORBES: Brits Might Pay 20% Snack Tax--Americans Would Sue

  • Whatever attraction they might have felt sounds less of the hot and heavy, panting teenage variety than a case of dignified, upper crust mutual admiration.

    WSJ: Step by Step to Love

  • Japanese researchers say the basalt in NWA 011 suggests the body from which it did originate had a core of molten iron with an outer covering of silicon and aluminium that formed a basaltic crust.

    BBC: Mercury meteorite puzzle

  • Roasting makes them taste like mini cherry pies, the interior of the fruit transformed to a pudding-like consistency that breaks through the "crust" of the skin when you bite it.

    NPR: Cherries on Top

  • While he loves a chewy, old-school Neapolitan-style crust and suggests letting your dough rise overnight for fuller flavor, Mr. Vetri has also developed a simpler Romana-style dough that forgoes the use of a yeast starter and shines in thin-crust preparations.

    WSJ: Homemade Pizza Recipes: Pizza Perfect

  • Yep, five bucks for a scant triangle of tomato sauce, crust and cheese.

    FORBES: Inflation Translation

  • "At the moment the Seychelles is a piece of granite, or continental crust, which is sitting practically in the middle of the Indian Ocean, " explained Prof Torsvik.

    BBC: Fragments of ancient continent buried under Indian Ocean

  • Where Pi breaks ground is its reinterpretation of deep dish, with a lot of cornmeal added to the crust, less buttery than the Chicago version, and much more coherent, so that you can pick up a slice and eat it fairly neatly with your hands, rather than the fork and knife casserole version of the Windy City.

    FORBES: Obama's Favorite Pizza Finally Comes to DC

  • However, the video shows that falling from a height, a person would be able to penetrate the crust of the lake and submerge in it.

    FORBES: How Volcanoes Digest Their Victims

  • Plate tectonics, the formation of faults and the moving of the continental crust over a molten interior, is a characteristic unique to Earth and it meant that minerals evolved far beyond those on any other planet in the Solar System.

    ECONOMIST: Minerals

  • Almost everyone leaps at the chance to go ashore at our first stop, King George Island, to climb a windswept 1, 000-foot incline whose hard crust of snow cracks on contact, sinking you to your knees every other step.

    FORBES: Go with the Floe

  • The company essentially trashed itself publicly, ridiculing itself for cardboard-like crust and sauce that tastes like it came out of a can.

    FORBES: Wendy's May Be the Next Big Turnaround Story

  • Rather than begin again, in a flash of thrift and ingenuity, they decided to put the crust on top and serve the tart upside down.

    NPR: Cookbook Author Celebrates Apple Season

  • Dr Duif rules out a third explanation, too: that cooling of the Earth's crust due to the eclipse shadow causes the ground to tilt slightly, and thus distorts the results.

    ECONOMIST: Gravitational anomalies

  • As exotic-auto makers redefine what a superluxury car can be, their executives are attempting a delicate balancing act: maintaining the exclusive cachet of their upper-crust brands while pursuing new wealthy customers that lower-end luxury rivals are currently scooping up.

    WSJ: Handcrafted Cars Geared for Soccer Moms

  • For those who wonder how Scotland earns a crust in the new global economic order, here's a compelling part of an answer.

    BBC: Aberdeen's pipeline of solutions

  • It lies in the Great Basin, an area where the earth's crust is thin and cracked, so it has great potential as a producer of geothermal power.

    ECONOMIST: Reno

  • It is often richer, too, due to the occasional inclusion of egg in the dough, and sport a mottled beige-brown crust from baking in a wood-burning oven.

    WSJ: Battle for the Bagel's Soul

  • Key limes are yellow, and that is the colour of an authentic Key lime pie, which is nothing more than a custard of Key lime juice, sweetened condensed milk and egg yolks in a cracker crust, then topped with meringue or whipped cream.

    BBC: Feasting in Florida

  • At one fetid pit in a jungle glade, he stepped gingerly onto the surface of the pool, where the solid matter in the produced water had congealed into a tarlike crust that was sturdy enough to support him.

    NEWYORKER: Reversal of Fortune

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