Favorites from a recent dinner: sticky Guanabana glazed ribs with green papaya slaw, conch chowder, slow braised oxtail and spiny lobster in a dry sherry bisque with green garlic zucchini.

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When the school officially opened in January 2007, groundskeepers sprayed the dry, yellow grass with green dye in preparation for the arrival of dignitaries like Mandela and celebrity friends like Diane Sawyer and Spike Lee.

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When he isn't picking flowers in Nimla garden, a green oasis in the dry hills of eastern Afghanistan, he works in a hot, dusty parking lot in the city of Jalalabad.

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Under a blazing sun, the earth was baked dry, and the GM wheat, a pale green, twitched and fluttered in the breeze.

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Meeker and I head over in the early afternoon and hit the White's winking riffles and the deep green pools with nymphs, streamers and dry flies.

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Ms. GREEN: Yes, trying to keep him dry.

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On Wednesday, the Second Circuit said that the judge's ruling that a single color can never serve as a trademark in the fashion industry was inconsistent with a 1995 U.S. Supreme Court decision, which granted Qualitex Co. the exclusive right to use a green-gold color on pads for commercial dry-cleaning presses.

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Even in Iraq's winter, new green growth is already forcing its way up among the dry stalks.

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Mickelson, who went straight to the practice green after his round to work on his putting, said the dry weather forecast would make the course play even faster and harder.

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But in bigger dry Africa, such as in Jabi village, efforts to replicate Asia's green revolution have so far failed.

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