In the distance, a straggling herd of wildebeest arced up and back into the grass like dolphins leaping from the water.
Nicholas Garland showed its members as an Endangered Species, bereft in long grass like hunted animals poised on extinction.
"They need green grass like we have here, and they like water where they can roost at night, " explains countryside management adviser Patrick McGurn.
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The US is the world's largest producer of alfalfa, a grass-like plant used as animal feed.
Whether training on a soft surface like grass actually improves performance is unclear, said Dr. Reed Ferber, a professor of kinesiology at the University of Calgary.
For the league, the TV deal is the latest step that began with grass roots programs like court construction and clinics administered by former players like A.C.
Dr. Mershin says that by using agricultural waste and inexpensive materials, like grass clippings, to create solar panels, electricity could become affordable and more available to rural places and developing countries.
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Some other tennis venues, such as those used for the Australian Open have sliding roofs - but that tournament is on hard courts, which react differently to a living surface like grass.
Here is the recipe he and his team discovered: organic material, like grass clippings or agricultural waste, is mixed with a stabilizing peptide powder and from that protein is extracted from the materials, stabilized.
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Mr. CARNEY: Yeah, like in 2002 Dan and I just finished our first record and we were getting ready to go on tour and we both needed money so we both just started mowing the lawns together and we toured in a car that smelled like grass and gas.
These could be things like switch grass, which the president mentioned the year before.
Foody says there are lots of other possible ingredients: corn stocks, fast-growing weeds like switch grass, even municipal waste.
He notes that, like all grass-roots organizations, peer networks can be disrupted by fanatics, but self-correction mechanisms can usually overcome such glitches.
Other Chinese companies are taking a different approach to grass-roots brands like Accelera, opting instead to scoop up foreign yacht brands as a shortcut to global success.
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Not that there's anything wrong with Brooks Brothers -- there isn't -- but it's sort of funny how, in the end, something like that grass-stained MSU baseball cap seems to matter.
Sounds minor, but weeds like buffel grass and milk thistle (which got on to the island decades ago) slowly crowd out native plants that animals rely on for cover and food.
They were prepared to allow this extraordinary vision of what modern warfare is like at grass-roots level, but I think they were very happy that journalists did have to struggle to put the pieces together.
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What they like about grass is that they can get that first strike in and the points aren't going to go on and on for 11, 12 and 13 shots as they do at the French Open.
They crush or press juice out of produce in a few minutes, leaving less waste behind than a fast juicer does, and they typically do a better job with tricky ingredients like wheat grass, nuts and leafy greens.
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The new game, which ships July 12 for PS3 and Xbox 360 (no PS2 game for the first time), has added a new collision system, new defensive maneuvers, and new visuals like 3D grass and fog (for those night games).
Nature crept back, like the veld grass, to restate her original claim.
Webb described cultivating the Wembley surface like "growing grass in a shoebox" but said the problems can be overcome with the right attention.
Then allergy sufferers will be able to frolic in the flowers and roll in the grass and eat peanuts just like everyone else.
The grass was making needle-like pricks through the thin material of her maroon scrubs, and she sat up, smoothing her matching V-neck over her chest and belly, feeling the familiar stab of self-consciousness as her hand rode over the unfashionable lumps.
They were exploring things like what affects how grass grows, how electricity works, and why bread gets moldy.
They obey each other's directions as if playing a game, two men hopping about in the dead grass, scattering glowing pine needles like sparks.
One change now being considered is an experiment with larger balls, which are designed to slow down the game on quick playing surfaces like Wimbledon's grass.
The designers buried the foundations deeply, so that the piers supporting the bridge would shoot up from the ground like "blades of grass, " Mr. Foster said, with no apparent support.
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But in streets, where the blades of grass don't grow, everything is like everything else.
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