• But as soon as the droplets brush something solid such as a tree branch, they freeze instantly.

    BBC: The quest to see China��s extraordinary frozen fog

  • It is known to have, or believed to have, healing powers as a tree.

    NPR: A Jazz Single Sees One Man Through

  • "Before the reorganization, we grew as a tree from one root, " Chen says.

    CNN: Hope Takes On the World

  • Cordero said he is unemployed, having recently been laid off from his job as a tree trimmer for a power company.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Wavy, ribbon and curly grain are byproducts of spiral grain that reverses itself periodically as a tree grows to produce a thing called interlocked grain.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'A Splintered History Of Wood'

  • He was as active as a tree entombed in ice.

    ECONOMIST: Canada

  • But what Jonathan Routh preferred to do was to dress up as a tree, wait at a bus stop and enquire which bus would take him to Sherwood Forest.

    ECONOMIST: Jonathan Routh

  • The residences at Sengokuyama occupy the bottom half of the 47-story building, giving residents a view of the 5-acre grounds, which include a garden specially designed to attract small indigenous birds such as woodpeckers and thrushes, as well as a tree-shaded plaza.

    WSJ: Pampered in Tokyo

  • More species can be mapped, and the cost of testing will fall, as surely as a chainsawed tree.

    ECONOMIST: Genetic testing of wood can curb illegal logging

  • But intrepid travelers will be rewarded with stunning snowy landscapes as well as a "Tree Sauna" and under-floor heating in every room delivered by renewable energy.

    CNN: Modern design meets nature with Sweden's Treehotel

  • There were also reports of a tornado in Lowestoft, Suffolk, where a woman was taken to hospital as a precaution after a tree fell on her car.

    BBC: 100mph storm winds batter south

  • He meant that the Memorial Plaza is so weighted with meaning, and emotions run so deep, that something as common as a dying tree could take on symbolic significance.

    WSJ: Also Rising Since 9/11

  • As I looked up I saw the wings of a ghostly pale owl fold into his body as he disappeared into a tree.

    NEWYORKER: Wakefield

  • In a silent comment, Saudis exchanged a cartoon depicting the royal seal's crossed swords over a palm tree as crossed mops over a bucket.

    ECONOMIST: Saudi Arabia

  • Regular homeowners insurance provides coverage for the cost of additional living expenses if a home is damaged by an insured disaster, such as wind damage or a tree that fell through the roof.

    WSJ: Filing a Claim? Here's What to Do

  • The Matsigenka hunt for monkeys and parrots, grow yucca and bananas, and build houses that they roof with the leaves of a particular kind of palm tree, known as a kapashi.

    NEWYORKER: Spoiled Rotten

  • Steve Robertson, of NHFT, described aspen as a "charismatic" tree for forest biodiversity.

    BBC: Bid to boost 'charismatic' tree

  • WHO's Essential Drugs Programme (a worthy attempt to work out a minimum list of the drugs that should be available in every country in the world), describes the organisation as being like a Christmas tree on whose branches new projects are hung at random, frequently without regard to what is there already.

    ECONOMIST: Repositioning the WHO

  • Wild Oats dropped United Natural as a primary distributor in 2002 and went with Tree of Life, a subsidiary of the Netherlands' Royal Wessanen.

    FORBES: Food Markets

  • The attack, which came as the teenagers huddled under a tree in the rain, was intended in retaliation for a July attack against Mr Williams, who declined to prosecute a suspect in that shooting, Mr McCarthy said.

    BBC: Kenneth Williams (left) and Michael Ward booking photos

  • In Baidoa, a town shattered by over a decade of fighting, Mohammed Sayid Hersi - more commonly known as General Morgan - sits under a shady tree with allies from the Somali Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC).

    BBC: Somalia pushed to brink of disaster

  • Her death from a seizure earlier this year felt as if someone ripped a branch from our family tree, and the loss still hurts.

    CNN: How to deal with the loss of a pet

  • The school is planning to erect a memorial bench and tree in memory of Kyle, as well as a cup dedicated to inter-house football competitions.

    BBC: School memorial for cricket ball death boy Kyle Rees

  • There, 230 employees work among a castle, a pirate ship and a tree house, as well as other childlike sets.

    FORBES: Inside InventionLand

  • As he was trying to pull a tree stump from the ground, the tractor flipped with him still on board.

    FORBES: Update on the Death of BMW VP Jack Pitney

  • At first it looks more like a fat white and yellow fish swimming through a green sun-speckled ocean, as if it and the tree and the grass were occupants of a fantastical aquarium.

    ECONOMIST: Leon Kossoff

  • And there was a lack of oversight from the regulator, the Financial Services Authority: it was "thoroughly inadequate... not so much the dog that did not bark, as a dog barking up the wrong tree".

    BBC: Carrying on banking

  • Pfizer was studying cytisine, a toxic chemical found in the coffee tree and in flowering Chinese shrubs, as a potential antinicotine drug.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Some classes of as many as 100 students are conducted under a big tree near the school buildings.

    NPR: The Missed Education of African Girls

  • The car, driven by Mr Lewis, crashed into a tree on the A590 as they headed towards Ulverston.

    BBC: Father calls for road to be made safer

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