By providing a drier environment, silk reduces that Kafkaesque tendency a nice blowout has of morphing into a nest of frizz overnight.
But where Squyres sees a watery past, others see a drier one.
Our main concerns are for next year because one of three long range forecasts for rainfall are predicting a drier than average start.
When Somerset started their second innings, Trescothick and Neil Edwards were soon eating into Hampshire's lead on a drier pitch than they had batted on in the first innings.
Water availability is just one factor that influences where businesses locate, said Jason Morrison of the Pacific Institute, author of a report on likely economic fallout from a drier climate.
And swing voters don't appear to mind too much either - indeed, some like the fact that the high rhetoric and lofty promises of the 2008 campaign have been replaced, at least by Mr Romney, by a drier, more technocratic approach.
"We're a bit drier than normal at this time and seeing conditions that we would usually see in June, " Berlant said.
There was no swing or seam to encourage England's opening bowlers on a much drier surface than seen at the first Test in Chittagong.
"Longer term we will see a trend to drier summers but superimposed on that we will always see natural variability, " she said.
This may not lead to large expansion of corn production, but it may mean that corn can be grown in areas that are drier, possibly as a consequence of climate change.
I'm confident we will get three full days in Rajkot, and the atmosphere feels drier and the pitch looks a belter.
That fire has burned nearly 2 square miles, and fire managers said it has the potential to grow much more in an area where logs are drier than pine boards from a lumber yard.
It also carries the risk of producing an inaccurate picture of the overall distribution of moisture, as the spots chosen for sampling may be considerably damper or drier than the soil just a few metres away.
Republican Allen has a folksier-style compared to the stiffer, drier Democratic Robb.
Provisionally, it was the 6th driest April over England in a series from 1910 and in East Anglia only April 2007 was drier.
The players loved them: They clung to the body like a second layer of skin, yet wicked away perspiration, keeping the shirts drier and lighter.
If preventing fungal attack were the explanation, he argues, young red leaves ought to be more common in a forest's wet understorey, where fungi thrive, than in the drier canopy.
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Agriculture employs a large part of the workforce, and dates and olives are cultivated in the drier areas.
Sarah Lucas's sculptures may be tumble drier lint inside stockings, but their fleshy shapes on plinths draw to mind a whole tradition of art from Lucien Freud to Henry Moore.
This shift created a stronger jet stream aimed towards the northwest part of the U.S., bringing drier and warmer conditions across the southern and eastern portion of the country.
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At Benromach, also just outside of Forres, enjoy a tasting tutorial with a pour of the award-winning, richly-flavoured Benromach Single Malt in the old Drier House, now the Malt Whisky Centre.
Drier-style, brut Champagnes--the genuine, French articles--pull off a balancing act between mild sweetness and crisp acidity that gives the drink a latchkey to unlock surprising flavor romances with everything from fried chicken to popcorn to Parmesan cheese, and nearly anything smoky or nutty.
She said that this year's conditions were partly caused by a move to a negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation which would be likely to lead to more frequent cold, drier winters - like the 1960s - and also wetter summers for 10-20 years.
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